HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsPhishingSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Funding Circle USA, Inc. (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.)

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 23, 2018

To disclose

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Affected

14state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Funding Circle USA, Inc. (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.) →2 incidents on file

Funding Circle USA, Inc. notified the NH AG of a third-party breach involving vendor Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). D&B employees' email accounts were compromised via stolen credentials, exposing customer PII (names, addresses, SSNs) of small business loan guarantors. 14 NH consumers affected. D&B engaged forensics, notified law enforcement, and enhanced security (MFA, password policy).

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Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Mar 23, 2018

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_3d87d952d97bbbad2018-03-30 · +7dCandidate
California State AGbd_c6ddb79bfb3789892018-03-30 · +7dVerified

Name: Funding Circle USA, Inc. (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.)
norm: funding circle usa inc dun bradstreet
Domain: fundingcircle.com

Name: Funding Circle USA, Inc. (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.)
norm: funding circle usa inc dun bradstreet
Domain: fundingcircle.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 29, 2018
Affected individuals: 14state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: D&B retained a leading cybersecurity forensics firm to conduct a full investigation
D&B notified federal law enforcement of the incident
D&B enhanced its account security, including the installation of multi-factor authentication on internal email accounts
D&B implemented a stricter password policy
D&B integration of enhanced threat monitoring procedures
Funding Circle elected to proactively notify affected consumers
Changes made: Installation of multi-factor authentication on internal email accounts
Implementation of a stricter password policy
Integration of enhanced threat monitoring procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGMar 23 · first · this page

Montana State AG+7d

California State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Mar 23 (NH), last Mar 30 (CA) — a 7-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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/funding-circle-20180323.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 23, 2018
Raw hash: 0b0c82be9bed48d5ba1faea7f7c3bd4d371cca6df807f5f6f2cd864a83f04758

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFunding Circle USA, Inc. (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.)

Victim entityFunding Circle USA, Inc. (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.)

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responseD&B retained a leading cybersecurity forensics firm to conduct a full investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov