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AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedFinancial accountAuthenticationLowResolved

WMS Partners

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Dec 21, 2020

Filed

Feb 25, 2021

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected · nationwide

6684 in this filing

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for WMS Partners →

WMS Partners, a financial services company, experienced an inadvertent disclosure on December 21, 2020. The breach, discovered the same day, affected 668 individuals, including 4 Maine residents. The compromised information included names and financial account or credit/debit card numbers with their security codes or PINs. Affected individuals were notified in writing on March 2, 2021, and offered 12 months of identity theft protection services through Experian.

Maine clockDiscovered Dec 21, 2020 → Filed with AG Feb 25, 202166d ⏱ ME AG >30d9 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 66 days

Dec 21, 2020

Begins

Dec 21, 2020

Discovered

Feb 25, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Maine State AGFeb 25 · first · this page
Massachusetts State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Feb 25 (ME), last Mar 2 (MA) — a 5-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.