HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCredentialsMediumContained

Penobscot Wealth Management, PA

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 28, 2024

Filed

Jan 7, 2025

To disclose

19 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Penobscot Wealth Management, PA →

Penobscot Wealth Management, PA notified consumers of unauthorized access to two employee email accounts between July 16 and August 28, 2024. The attacker accessed emails containing names, SSNs, driver's license numbers, financial account numbers, payment card numbers, passwords, and dates of birth. The firm secured the accounts, investigated, and offered one year of Equifax identity monitoring services.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday19 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 43 days

discovery → filing · 19 weeks / 132 days

Jul 16, 2024

Begins

Aug 28, 2024

Discovered

Jan 7, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+10 wks slower

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_1633b4364a7d02642025-01-07Verified
Maine State AGbd_517bd528020d6abc2025-01-07Candidate
Nebraska State AGbd_5d3627fc367a308d2025-01-07Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_9f5cba0a3728b5ae2025-01-07Verified

Name: Penobscot Wealth Management, PA
norm: penobscot wealth management

Name: Penobscot Wealth Management, PA
norm: penobscot wealth management
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 28, 2024
Breach occurred: Jul 16, 2024 – Aug 28, 2024
Undetected for: 43 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 7, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCredentials
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Arranged for you to receive a complimentary one-year membership of identity monitoring services through Equifax
Took measures to secure the email accounts
Began an investigation
Changes made: Taken steps to enhance our existing security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 19 weeks(132 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bday
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Indiana State AGJan 7 · first

Maine State AGJan 7 · first

Nebraska State AGJan 7 · first

Massachusetts State AGJan 7 · first

Vermont State AGJan 7 · first · this page

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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-01-07-penobscot-wealth-management-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 7, 2025
Raw hash: 60ffa60715d52611a4898b4ee1720c194ce86db2bd0cc43b95db98ef7b856885

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPenobscot Wealth Management, PA

Victim entityPenobscot Wealth Management, PA

Incidentdiscovered Aug 28, 2024

Stated responseArranged for you to receive a complimentary one-year membership of identity monitoring services through Equifax

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov