HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Identity (basic)LowContained

Constar Financial Services, LLC

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 22, 2024

Filed

Sep 27, 2024

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Constar Financial Services, LLC →2 incidents on file

Vermont AG notice regarding a data breach affecting Constar Financial Services. Unauthorized access occurred at a partner company's systems on July 22, 2024. Impacted data included names and other elements. Constar offered credit monitoring via Equifax. No identity theft confirmed.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday10 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

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 67 days

Jul 22, 2024

Discovered

Sep 27, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_53ad2776970efdd62024-09-27Candidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_c922d491a63096342024-09-27Verified
Maine State AGbd_d4bd802f24cc40d02024-09-27Verified

Name: Empereon Marketing
norm: empereon marketing
Domain: empereon.com

Name: Constar Financial Services, LLC
norm: constar financial
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 22, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 27, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: reported this event to federal law enforcement and government regulators
Third party: via partner company
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Partner promptly took steps to secure the systems
Launched an investigation with the assistance of cyber incident response specialists
Reported the event to federal law enforcement
Conducted a comprehensive review of the information within the impacted files
Offering you months of credit monitoring and identity restoration services at no cost to you through Equifax
Changes made: Working to review and further enhance these protections
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(67 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 · 4 filings · 4 states

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Montana State AGSep 27 · first

New Hampshire State AGSep 27 · first

Maine State AGSep 27 · first

Vermont State AGSep 27 · 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/2024-09-27-empereon-marketing-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 27, 2024
Raw hash: ab50b87fe44783a224354c1afc26cfbfbf5977ed32c8226931cbbce0ebc12ec8

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityEmpereon Marketing

Victim entityConstar Financial Services, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Jul 22, 2024

Stated responsePartner promptly took steps to secure the systems

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov