HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

BLN-18661

bd_6c6f00dc22ca1353 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 7, 2023

Filed

Aug 22, 2023

To disclose

28 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

62%

Full breach record for BLN-18661 →

Advance America reported a data breach occurring on February 7, 2023, involving unauthorized access to corporate business records containing customer personal information. The company engaged third-party forensic experts, notified law enforcement, and implemented enhanced security safeguards. Affected individuals were offered one year of credit monitoring and identity protection services via Kroll.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 28 weeks / 196 days

Feb 7, 2023

Begins

Feb 7, 2023

Discovered

Aug 22, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+20 wks slower

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

Name: BLN-18661
norm: bln 18661

Name: BLN-18661
norm: bln 18661
Also named: BLN-18661dba oflegal entity
Advance Americadba oftrade name
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 7, 2023
Breach occurred: Feb 7, 2023
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Reported this incident to law enforcement

During the incident: Engaged third-party cybersecurity experts to remediate, further investigate what happened, and determine the scope of the incident
Reported this incident to law enforcement
Implemented additional security measures to further fortify its network's security measures and protocols
Enhanced administrative and technical safeguards
Instituted more frequent and rigorous security training
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring and protection services
Changes made: Implemented additional security measures to further fortify its network's security measures and protocols
Enhanced administrative and technical safeguards
Instituted more frequent and rigorous security training
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 28 weeks(196 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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/AdvanceAmerica.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 22, 2023
Raw hash: 7847227e35dfd9b265dae81a44d78774c59372122a32bd8c4c442197705ae952

Reporting entityBLN-18661

Victim entityBLN-18661

Incidentdiscovered Feb 7, 2023

Stated responseEngaged third-party cybersecurity experts to remediate, further investigate what happened, and determine the scope of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov