UnknownGovernment IDFinancial accountMedium

Index Fund Advisors, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Dec 17, 2021

To disclose

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Affected

74state residents only

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Index Fund Advisors, Inc. →

Index Fund Advisors, Inc. reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2021-12-17. 74 Massachusetts residents were affected. The report records the breach type as electronic.

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Massachusetts clock✓ MA credit monitoring due

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Dec 17, 2021

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 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_0ae3681a545442742021-12-17Candidate
California State AGbd_0d93c75dfd599b2c2021-12-17Verified
Indiana State AGbd_b688f29701c2be002021-12-17Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_641bfbfc299e09c22021-12-27 · +10dVerified

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Maine State AGbd_1e8a953c14fe0d982022-01-06 · +20dVerified
Montana State AGbd_40ab1b9a6ec270742022-01-06 · +20dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_149450664aa088cc2022-01-12 · +26dVerified

Name: Index Fund Advisors, Inc.
norm: index fund advisors
Domain: ifa.com

Name: Index Fund Advisors, Inc.
norm: index fund advisors
Domain: ifa.com

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 74state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberFinancial account numberDriver's licence number
Stated not affected: Payment card number
The filing states these were not involved. Categories absent from both lists were not addressed either way.
Attack vector: Unknown

Compliance flags: MA credit monitoring due
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 6 states

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Maine State AGDec 17 · first

California State AGDec 17 · first

Indiana State AGDec 17 · first

Massachusetts State AGDec 17 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+10d

Maine State AG+20d

Montana State AG+20d

New Hampshire State AG+26d

Pattern: first filing Dec 17 (ME), last Jan 12 (NH) — a 26-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://www.mass.gov/doc/data-breach-report-2021/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 17, 2021
Raw hash: 4356791c15574999a0202b5de5b79c55b340f6a44383be3ca1693b4693a4487d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityIndex Fund Advisors, Inc.

Victim entityIndex Fund Advisors, Inc.

IncidentUnknown

ComplianceMA credit monitoring due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov