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HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceVulnerability ExploitTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Aven Financial, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 17, 2023

Filed

Jul 29, 2023

To disclose

12 days

Affected

5state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Aven Financial, Inc.

Aven Financial, Inc. notified Montana residents of a data security incident on July 17, 2023. A third-party security researcher discovered a temporary vulnerability in an in-development internal storage system, gaining unauthorized access to personal information including names, SSNs, and dates of birth. Aven remediated the vulnerability within 45 minutes. No passwords were accessed. Aven launched a bug bounty program.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 12 days

Jul 17, 2023

Begins

Jul 17, 2023

Discovered

Jul 29, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filingup to 209d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
Illinois State AGJan 1 · first
Montana State AG+209d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Jul 31 (IN) — a 211-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.