MalwareFinancial ServicesFinanceRansomwareCapture Stored DataData ExfiltratedData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPIIMediumActive

1ST FRANKLIN FINANCIAL CORPORATION

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 18, 2022

Filed

Mar 2, 2023

To disclose

15 weeks

Affected

49state residents only

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for 1ST FRANKLIN FINANCIAL CORPORATION →

1st Franklin Financial Corporation reported a security incident occurring November 17-18, 2022, involving unauthorized encryption of electronic files (ransomware). An unauthorized third party may have accessed and/or exfiltrated data. Potentially impacted data included names, SSNs, and bank account/routing numbers. Notices were sent to 49 New Hampshire residents on February 15, 2023, offering credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 15 weeks / 104 days

Nov 17, 2022

Begins

Nov 18, 2022

Discovered

Dec 15, 2022

Scope determined

Mar 2, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+7 wks slower

This filing is one of 8 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_0f301abc01d259d12023-03-02Verified by operator
Vermont State AGbd_78421a87f880eedc2023-03-02Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_6cc99e9fdb9359cb2023-03-09 · +7dVerified
South Carolina State AGbd_c448f2a9cb8352f62023-02-22 · +8dVerified

Show 3 more filings ↓up to 51d gap

California State AGbd_3fa3cf4006932edb2023-03-23 · +21dVerified by operator
Maine State AGbd_9eb0df3dc0ec2cb22023-01-18 · +43dCandidate
Indiana State AGbd_6c626572f091c0f52023-01-10 · +51dVerified

Name: 1ST FRANKLIN FINANCIAL CORPORATION
norm: 1st franklin financial

Name: 1ST FRANKLIN FINANCIAL CORPORATION
norm: 1st franklin financial
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 18, 2022
Breach occurred: Nov 17, 2022 – Nov 18, 2022
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: Dec 15, 2022
Notification sent: Feb 15, 2023
Affected individuals: 49state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPII
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General John Formella

During the incident: Promptly changing passwords and blocking the unauthorized access
Engaged third-party forensic experts to investigate and remediate this incident
Conducted a review of the data (which involved a combination of automated and eyes-on examination of the impacted files)
Issuing notices to potentially affected individuals
Sending notices via U.S. Mail
Offering credit monitoring services at no cost to the recipients
Changes made: Offering 12 months of free credit monitoring and $1 million in identity theft insurance through Experian
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 weeks(104 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 8 states

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Indiana State AGJan 10 · first

Maine State AG+8d

South Carolina State AG+43d

Montana State AG+51d

Vermont State AG+51d

New Hampshire State AG+51d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+58d

California State AG+72d

Pattern: first filing Jan 10 (IN), last Mar 23 (CA) — a 72-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/1st-franklin-financial-20230302.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 2, 2023
Raw hash: 0aad5eb0d9f461b15241ddd059a51e6902fa18a2e488f804157191a4fd42f4aa

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entity1ST FRANKLIN FINANCIAL CORPORATION

Victim entity1ST FRANKLIN FINANCIAL CORPORATION

Incidentdiscovered Nov 18, 2022

Stated responsePromptly changing passwords and blocking the unauthorized access

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov