Social EngineeringPhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTPHIHEALTH_BASICMediumContained
The Town of Chester
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Full breach record for The Town of Chester →The Town of Chester notified consumers of a data breach occurring between April 9 and April 29, 2025. Unauthorized access to the Town's email environment resulted in the viewing and copying of personal information, including names, SSNs, driver's license numbers, financial account details, and PHI. The Town retained forensic specialists and legal counsel, and is offering 24 months of free credit monitoring to affected individuals.
Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday19 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.
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
- bd_3855e06eac1d88beMaine State AGfiled 2025-09-05Candidate
- bd_69809c87beb5fa42New Hampshire State AGfiled 2025-09-05Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-09-05-town-chester-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Sep 5, 2025
- Raw hash
- b1785f49ab0b0b30b4cd6b41cb3ef20ca5b24980263e45932f00ab9d8226ed29
Reporting entity
- Name
- The Town of Chesternorm: the town of chester
Victim entity
- Name
- The Town of Chesternorm: the town of chester
Incident
- Discovered
- Apr 28, 2025
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Sep 5, 2025
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTPHIHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 19 weeks(130 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.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.