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HackingEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMedium

American Forest Foundation

bd_557af4cf8e9c6e8b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 16, 2021

Filed

May 17, 2021

To disclose

13 weeks

Affected · nationwide

561 in this filing

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for American Forest Foundation →

American Forest Foundation, a non-profit organization, reported a data breach affecting 56 individuals, including one Maine resident. The breach, described as an external system hack, occurred on December 1, 2020, and was discovered on February 16, 2021. The compromised information includes names and Social Security numbers. The foundation offered 12 months of free credit monitoring services to those affected upon request.

Maine clockDiscovered Feb 16, 2021 → Filed with AG May 17, 202190d ⏱ ME AG >30d13 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 · 77 days
discovery → filing · 13 weeks / 90 days

Dec 1, 2020

Begins

Feb 16, 2021

Discovered

May 17, 2021

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
Massachusetts State AGMay 17 · first
Indiana State AGMay 17 · first
Maine State AGMay 17 · 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.