Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Wealth Enhancement Group, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 22, 2020

Filed

Jul 22, 2020

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Wealth Enhancement Group, LLC →2 incidents on file

Wealth Enhancement Group, LLC notified individuals that an unauthorized person accessed employee email accounts via phishing on March 22, 2020. The incident may have exposed nonpublic personal information including names, SSNs, driver's licenses, and financial account numbers. The company secured accounts, engaged forensic experts, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 122 days

Mar 22, 2020

Begins

Mar 22, 2020

Discovered

Jul 22, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_993325df97dbb6f02020-07-23 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_a5e9e45a411834492020-07-17 · +5dVerified

Name: Wealth Enhancement Group, LLC
norm: wealth enhancement
Domain: wealthenhancement.com

Name: Wealth Enhancement Group, LLC
norm: wealth enhancement
Domain: wealthenhancement.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 22, 2020
Breach occurred: Mar 22, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 1, 2020
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the impacted email accounts
Engaged outside information security and technology experts to assist in our review and investigation of the incident
Offering a complimentary 24-month credit monitoring and identity theft protection package through Experian IdentityWorks
Changes made: Reviewed and implemented additional options to enhance our technology and security practices to reduce the risk of a similar issue occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(122 days from discovery to filing)
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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Massachusetts State AGJul 17 · first

Montana State AG+5d · this page

Indiana State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Jul 17 (MA), last Jul 23 (IN) — a 6-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Wealth-Enhancement-Group-LLC-Consumer-ltr.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 22, 2020
Raw hash: 5fa6b3fc2e237337700eac160d2b8a20d71ff48d703cb5767349fe5d7fd34197

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWealth Enhancement Group, LLC

Victim entityWealth Enhancement Group, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Mar 22, 2020

Stated responseSecured the impacted email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov