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HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceCustomer Data InvolvedPIIGovernment IDHighContained

Professional Finance Company

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Severity

High

Discovered

Mar 28, 2022

Filed

Jul 1, 2022

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

12,474state residents only

Linked

10 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Professional Finance Company2 incidents on file

Professional Finance Company, Inc., a financial services organization, reported an external system breach (hacking) that affected 12,474 Maine residents. The breach occurred on February 22, 2022, and was discovered on March 28, 2022. The compromised data includes names and Social Security Numbers. Affected individuals were notified on July 1, 2022, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Cyberscout.

Maine clockDiscovered Mar 28, 2022Filed with AG Jul 1, 202295d ME AG >90d14 weeks discovery → filing
AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 34 days
discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 95 days

Feb 22, 2022

Begins

Mar 28, 2022

Discovered

Jul 1, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+5 wks slower

This filing is one of 10 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Show 5 more filingsup to 59d gap

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 9 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing May 3 (IN), last Jul 1 (ME) — a 59-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.