HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceDelayed DiscoveryPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Farmers Investment Co.

bd_50bb0fce4a58434a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 26, 2022

Filed

Jan 18, 2023

To disclose

21 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

63%

Full breach record for Farmers Investment Co. →

Farmers Investment Co. (FICO) notified consumers of a data security incident occurring around May 31, 2022. An unauthorized individual may have accessed personal information. FICO engaged a cybersecurity firm, reported the incident to the FBI, and offered credit monitoring services. The specific data types were redacted in the source text as <<Variable 2>>.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday21 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 87 days

discovery → filing · 21 weeks / 145 days

May 31, 2022

Begins

Aug 26, 2022

Discovered

Jan 18, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+13 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_17ec4b32883542e92023-01-18Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_e607be2c136f7cdc2023-01-18Verified
Maine State AGbd_f3a40b2609c59d412023-01-18Verified
Indiana State AGbd_b978df6add4b1f2b2023-01-12 · +6dVerified

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Montana State AGbd_f9c67a630a15967b2023-01-12 · +6dCandidate

Name: Farmers Investment Co.
norm: farmers investment

Name: Farmers Investment Co.
norm: farmers investment
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 26, 2022
Breach occurred: May 31, 2022
Undetected for: 87 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 12, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Reported the incident to the Federal Bureau of Investigation

During the incident: Engaged a leading cybersecurity firm to assist with an investigation
Engaged a vendor to conduct a thorough and extensive review of potentially affected files
Reported the incident to the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Offering free of charge identity theft protection services through IDX
Changes made: Implemented additional measures to reduce the risk of a similar incident occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 weeks(145 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bday
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Indiana State AGJan 12 · first

Montana State AGJan 12 · first

New Hampshire State AG+6d

Massachusetts State AG+6d

Maine State AG+6d

Vermont State AG+6d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 12 (IN), last Jan 18 (VT) — a 6-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.

Source URL: https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-01-18-farmers-investment-co-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 18, 2023
Raw hash: 09a84c1363cf3c6d8a0aa1dfc1283501b7b1bfa5698f17d944b30c45a2127f7c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFarmers Investment Co.

Victim entityFarmers Investment Co.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 26, 2022

Stated responseEngaged a leading cybersecurity firm to assist with an investigation

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov