HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial credentialsBiometricPHIHealth (basic)MediumContained

Liberty Partners Financial Services, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 17, 2021

Filed

Apr 25, 2022

To disclose

31 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Liberty Partners Financial Services, LLC →2 incidents on file

Liberty Partners Financial Services, LLC experienced unauthorized access to employee email accounts starting September 17, 2021. The incident involved the exposure of sensitive personal data including names, SSNs, financial account details, biometric data, and health information. The company engaged forensic specialists, enhanced security protocols, and offered credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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California clockDiscovered Sep 17, 2021 → Notified Apr 22, 2022217d ✗ CA 60-day late31 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 31 weeks / 220 days

Sep 17, 2021

Begins

Sep 17, 2021

Discovered

Apr 25, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+23 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_6c4dbfd4391581db2022-04-26 · +1dVerified
Montana State AGbd_b683fdbc1f38f35b2022-04-22 · +3dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_7ed6c0367131a54b2022-01-01 · +114dCandidate

Name: Liberty Partners Financial Services, LLC
norm: liberty partners financial

Name: Liberty Partners Financial Services, LLC
norm: liberty partners financial
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 17, 2021
Breach occurred: Sep 17, 2021
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 22, 2022
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial credentialsBiometricPHIHealth (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the FBINotified any applicable state regulators
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Identified unusual activity in an employee’s email account
Immediately began an investigation
Working with third-party forensic specialists to determine the full nature and scope of the activity
Conducted a review of the contents of the impacted email accounts to determine the types of information contained therein and to whom the information related
Enhanced user log-in security protocol
Changed all user email account passwords
Reviewing policies and procedures related to data security
Providing access to 12 months of credit monitoring and identity protection services at no cost
Notified the FBI and any applicable state regulators of this incident
Changes made: Enhanced user log-in security protocol
Changed all user email account passwords
Reviewing policies and procedures related to data security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 31 weeks(220 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day late · 217d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Sep 17, 2021
→ Notified: Apr 22, 2022
217d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Sep 17, 2021 → Notified: Apr 22, 2022	217d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day late

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

Montana State AG+111d

California State AG+114d · this page

Maine State AG+115d

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Apr 26 (ME) — a 115-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.

Source URL: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-552861
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 25, 2022
Raw hash: 4d8559a4d8ecc57b07ce91db3155a109fc0677fa05b1bfd2210aae135ee710a0

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLiberty Partners Financial Services, LLC

Victim entityLiberty Partners Financial Services, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Sep 17, 2021

Stated responseIdentified unusual activity in an employee’s email account

ComplianceCA 60-day late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov