Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingBECCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCredentialsMediumContained

Walter Shuffain Advisors

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 11, 2024

Filed

Mar 11, 2025

To disclose

13 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Walter Shuffain Advisors →

Walter Shuffain Advisors, Inc. reported a business email compromise incident detected on December 11, 2024. An unauthorized party accessed an internal email account around December 3, 2024. The breach potentially exposed clients' names, dates of birth, addresses, SSNs, driver's license numbers, financial account numbers, and login credentials. The firm engaged forensic specialists, notified law enforcement, and is offering 24 months of credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday13 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 · 8 days

discovery → filing · 13 weeks / 90 days

Dec 3, 2024

Begins

Dec 11, 2024

Discovered

Mar 11, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_c31433e6cf94fe342025-03-11Verified
Maine State AGbd_593581ed873914202025-03-10 · +1dCandidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_cf014831265a88802025-03-13 · +2dVerified

Name: Walter Shuffain Advisors
norm: walter shuffain advisors

Name: Walter Shuffain Advisors
norm: walter shuffain advisors
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 11, 2024
Breach occurred: Dec 3, 2024
Undetected for: 8 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 11, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCredentials
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the compromised email account
Engaged third party information technology and forensic specialists
Notified law enforcement
Worked with security experts to enact additional security measures
Offered 24 months of complimentary credit monitoring services through Cyberscout
Changes made: Enacted additional security measures designed to stop a similar occurrence in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 weeks(90 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 · 4 filings · 4 states

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Maine State AGMar 10 · first

Indiana State AG+1d

Vermont State AG+1d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+3d

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/2025-03-11-walter-shuffain-advisors-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 11, 2025
Raw hash: 26385a73896ecc4bd608bfd1f419835e00e1ab8fcd291edce2a3b990b694c1f9

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWalter Shuffain Advisors

Victim entityWalter Shuffain Advisors

Incidentdiscovered Dec 11, 2024

Stated responseSecured the compromised email account

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov