HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLow

Light Tower Financial Strategies

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 15, 2021

Filed

Feb 11, 2021

To disclose

27 days

Affected · nationwide

1751 in this filing

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Light Tower Financial Strategies →

Light Tower Financial Strategies, a financial services firm, experienced an external system breach on January 14, 2021, which was discovered the following day. The incident affected 175 individuals, compromising their names and financial account numbers combined with security codes, access codes, or passwords. The company provided written notification to those affected on January 28, 2021, and offered 12 months of identity theft protection services.

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Maine clockDiscovered Jan 15, 2021 → Filed with AG Feb 11, 202127d ✓ ME AG ≤30d27 days 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 · 1 days

discovery → filing · 27 days

Jan 14, 2021

Begins

Jan 15, 2021

Discovered

Feb 11, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_579f59092fa368822021-02-11Verified

Name: Light Tower Financial Strategies
norm: light tower financial strategies

Name: Light Tower Financial Strategies
norm: light tower financial strategies
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 15, 2021
Breach occurred: Jan 14, 2021
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 28, 2021
Affected individuals: 175state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Data elements: Financial account number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: External

During the incident: Provided written notification to affected individuals
Offered 12 months of identity theft protection services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 days(27 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: ME AG ≤30d · 27d
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.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
Maine
Discovered: Jan 15, 2021
→ Filed with AG: Feb 11, 2021
27d 30 days ME AG ≤30d

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
Maine	Discovered: Jan 15, 2021 → Filed with AG: Feb 11, 2021	27d	30 days	ME AG ≤30d

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGFeb 11 · first

Maine State AGFeb 11 · first · this page

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Leak-site claim

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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.maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318/edc28f88-f278-474e-a0bf-54d159ca3393.shtml
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Filed at: Feb 11, 2021
Raw hash: b9aafd970994f30b9f2a7d0a9f7ae1b7904bbe0cefe057182668c8818acf50b8

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLight Tower Financial Strategies

Victim entityLight Tower Financial Strategies

Incidentdiscovered Jan 15, 2021

Stated responseProvided written notification to affected individuals

ComplianceME AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.maine.gov