Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 26, 2020

Filed

Apr 12, 2021

To disclose

33 weeks

Affected

6state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

63%

Full breach record for Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation →8 incidents on file

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation notified customers of a phishing incident where four employee email accounts were compromised between August 24-26, 2020. The breach exposed PII including SSNs, DOBs, addresses, and financial account data. The company secured the accounts and offered five years of Experian IdentityWorks monitoring to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days

discovery → filing · 33 weeks / 229 days

Aug 24, 2020

Begins

Aug 26, 2020

Discovered

Apr 12, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+24 wks slower

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_65898170aa86a1d12021-04-12Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_adaaea4874d3b36b2021-04-13 · +1dVerified

Name: Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation
norm: fairway independent mortgage
Domain: fairwayindependentmc.com

Name: Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation
norm: fairway independent mortgage
Domain: fairwayindependentmc.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 26, 2020
Breach occurred: Aug 24, 2020 – Aug 26, 2020
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 6state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Offering a complimentary five-year membership of Experian’s IdentityWorks
Took immediate steps to secure the email accounts
Investigated the incident
Changes made: Secured the email accounts
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 33 weeks(229 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGApr 12 · first

Montana State AGApr 12 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+1d

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.

Source URL: https://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Fairway-Notif.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 12, 2021
Raw hash: ce8493f0af21a0d70c74f51e7619f762002e7e40c3529d922cc7abdd536544f1

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFairway Independent Mortgage Corporation

Victim entityFairway Independent Mortgage Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Aug 26, 2020

Stated responseOffering a complimentary five-year membership of Experian’s IdentityWorks

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov