Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

Voya Financial Advisors, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 9, 2023

Filed

Mar 9, 2023

To disclose

28 days

Affected

4state residents only

Confidence

66%

Voya Financial Advisors, Inc. notified Montana residents that on February 9, 2023, a malicious actor gained unauthorized access to a financial professional's email account via phishing. The account contained names, addresses, and Social Security numbers. VFA reset passwords, investigated, and provided one year of credit monitoring. No evidence of data exfiltration or unauthorized access to retirement accounts was found.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 28 days

Feb 9, 2023

Discovered

Mar 9, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4 affectedView incident

Name: Voya Financial Advisors, Inc.
norm: voya financial advisors

Name: Voya Financial Advisors, Inc.
norm: voya financial advisors
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 9, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 3, 2023
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Began an investigation
Forced a password reset to prevent any further access to the email account by the threat actor
Providing you with one year of FREE credit monitoring and identity fraud coverage through Experian Personal Solutions
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 28 days(28 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-104.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 9, 2023
Raw hash: 3586854d566e11b3c69914b6a70a18d0582d6da325176575f3297ce13776f707

Reporting entityVoya Financial Advisors, Inc.

Victim entityVoya Financial Advisors, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Feb 9, 2023

Stated responseBegan an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov