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Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Vantage Financial Group

bd_6aff32ddffdc4c5d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 28, 2024

Filed

Jan 5, 2025

To disclose

19 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Vantage Financial Group →2 incidents on file

Vantage Financial Group, Toledo notified Montana residents of unauthorized access to an employee email account between August 28 and September 5, 2024. The incident involved phishing leading to credential compromise and email collection. Personal information (name) was accessed. Vantage secured the account, notified law enforcement, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 19 weeks / 130 days

Aug 28, 2024

Begins

Aug 28, 2024

Discovered

Jan 5, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+10 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGJan 5 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 5 (MT), last Feb 5 (MA) — a 31-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.