HackingTelecom & MediaInformationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

TracFone Wireless

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 1, 2023

Filed

Feb 3, 2023

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for TracFone Wireless →

TracFone Wireless notified Vermont consumers of a data breach in early January 2023. An unauthorized third party gained access to customer information via the company website. Affected data included names, phone numbers, billing addresses, service details, and payment card numbers. TracFone engaged Experian to offer two years of credit monitoring.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday5 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 · 5 weeks / 33 days

Jan 1, 2023

Discovered

Feb 3, 2023

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_3da16f961a9d8ed42023-02-03Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_6eaba526d7cb9d4e2023-02-03Verified

Name: TracFone Wireless
norm: tracfone wireless

Name: TracFone Wireless
norm: tracfone wireless
Industry: Telecom & Mediallm

Discovered: Jan 1, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 3, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Filed notice with Vermont Attorney General
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Launched an extensive investigation to determine the timeframe of exposure and identify impacted customers
Took steps to block the unauthorized access and further protect our systems
Retained Experian to provide credit monitoring and identity theft services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(33 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >14 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 · 3 filings · 3 states

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Indiana State AGFeb 3 · first

Massachusetts State AGFeb 3 · first

Vermont State AGFeb 3 · 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/2023-02-03-tracfone-wireless-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 3, 2023
Raw hash: c7094e1d9eb28f70f8f3568c2fcaa608590aab6ddca048aa2f6275288abc294b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTracFone Wireless

Victim entityTracFone Wireless

Incidentdiscovered Jan 1, 2023

Stated responseLaunched an extensive investigation to determine the timeframe of exposure and identify impacted customers

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov