Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Retirement Visions

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 9, 2022

Filed

Apr 4, 2023

To disclose

34 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Retirement Visions →

Retirement Visions notified consumers of a security incident where an unauthorized individual accessed an advisor's email account via a phishing link. The account contained personal information including names, addresses, DOBs, driver's license numbers, financial account numbers, and SSNs. No evidence of specific misuse was found. The company secured the account, enhanced security protocols, re-educated staff, and provided one year of identity monitoring.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday34 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

discovery → filing · 34 weeks / 238 days

Aug 9, 2022

Discovered

Apr 4, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+26 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_caaa7e67d911b4852023-04-04Verified

Name: Retirement Visions
norm: retirement visions

Name: Retirement Visions
norm: retirement visions
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 9, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 4, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
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: Secured the advisor's email account
Launched an investigation
Implemented additional measures to enhance existing security protocols
Re-educating staff for awareness on these types of incidents
Provided one year of complimentary identity monitoring through Kroll
Changes made: Implemented additional measures to enhance existing security protocols
Re-educating staff for awareness on these types of incidents
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 34 weeks(238 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 · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGApr 4 · first

Vermont State AGApr 4 · first · this page

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/2023-04-04-retirement-visions-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 4, 2023
Raw hash: 386db439b488fe78db914c98df2805d31f14eafab24b9af7fa56d5218e21eab9

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityRetirement Visions

Victim entityRetirement Visions

Incidentdiscovered Aug 9, 2022

Stated responseSecured the advisor's email account

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov