HackingVulnerability ExploitSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumContained
FORRESTER RESEARCH, INC.
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Full breach record for FORRESTER RESEARCH, INC. →Forrester Research, Inc. notified Vermont AG of a data breach affecting employee data. The breach originated from a third-party vendor, Pension Benefit Information (PBI), which uses MOVEit Transfer software. Cybercriminals exploited a vulnerability in MOVEit to access data including names, DOBs, SSNs, and state/zip codes. Forrester confirmed PBI remediated the vulnerability and is offering 2 years of credit monitoring and identity theft restoration.
Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday8 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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-07-27-forrester-research-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jul 27, 2023
- Raw hash
- c4c97a958724d4ce27056db015a5650a83f6bea93503767b2ee092efec708108
Reporting entity
- Name
- FORRESTER RESEARCH, INC.norm: forrester research
Victim entity
- Name
- FORRESTER RESEARCH, INC.norm: forrester research
Incident
- Discovered
- May 31, 2023
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jul 27, 2023
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Third-Party / Supply Chain
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Filed notice with Vermont Attorney General
- Initial access
- supply_chain
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(57 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- VT AG >14 bday
- Discovery-date grounding
- 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.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.