HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountGovernment IDCriticalResolved

Heights Finance

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

May 7, 2026

Filed

Aug 12, 2026

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

486,463state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Heights Finance →

Heights Finance Holdings Company discovered on May 7, 2026, that an unauthorized actor accessed a third-party cloud platform storing customer data. The incident involved potential exposure of names, addresses, financial account details, and government identifiers like SSNs. The company activated incident response, engaged forensic specialists, and notified law enforcement. The investigation is complete, and the platform is secure. Credit monitoring is offered to affected individuals.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due14 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 97 days

May 7, 2026

Discovered

Aug 12, 2026

Filed

vs. sector median

+4 wks slower

This filing is one of 7 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_3f9e143baf2d80e22026-08-11 · +1dVerified
Vermont State AGbd_6491738a8088845a2026-08-11 · +1dCandidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_832be41a71bfd9082026-08-11 · +1dVerified
Texas State AGbd_6059c7b4652dc5ce2026-08-14 · +2dVerified

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 11d gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_37ae1efc696bbc5f2026-08-01 · +11dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_e841e98a251262872026-08-01 · +11dVerified

Name: Heights Finance
norm: heights finance
Domain: heightfinancial.com

Name: Heights Finance
norm: heights finance
Domain: heightfinancial.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 7, 2026
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 10, 2026
Affected individuals: 486,463state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountGovernment ID
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Reported the incident to federal law enforcement
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Activated incident response protocols
Brought in outside cybersecurity specialists to investigate
Reported the incident to federal law enforcement
Engaged a third-party cybersecurity specialist to monitor the dark web
Offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services through Epiq
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 weeks(97 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

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Massachusetts State AGAug 1 · first

Illinois State AGAug 1 · first

Indiana State AG+10d

Vermont State AG+10d

New Hampshire State AG+10d

South Carolina State AG+11d · this page

Texas State AG+13d

Pattern: first filing Aug 1 (MA), last Aug 14 (TX) — a 13-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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/2026/Consumer%20Letter%20-%20Heights%20Finance%20Holdings%20Company.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 12, 2026
Raw hash: 4b6fc0ca7c223e3dbaf649949102e22a14702e0817f1b4310d6d21f40e5555e2

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHeights Finance

Victim entityHeights Finance

Incidentdiscovered May 7, 2026

Stated responseActivated incident response protocols

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov