Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

SHARONVIEW FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 29, 2023

Filed

Dec 4, 2023

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for SHARONVIEW FEDERAL CREDIT UNION →3 incidents on file

Sharonview Federal Credit Union notified Vermont AG of a security incident where an unauthorized third party accessed one employee's email account between Aug 28-29, 2023, attempting financial fraud. Affected data included names, SSNs, and financial account numbers. The fraud was blocked, and the company provided credit monitoring services to affected members.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday14 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 · 1 days

discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 97 days

Aug 28, 2023

Begins

Aug 29, 2023

Discovered

Dec 4, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+6 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

South Carolina State AGbd_2f8c2a016c67d8012023-12-28 · +24dVerified

Name: SHARONVIEW FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
norm: sharonview federal credit union

Name: SHARONVIEW FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
norm: sharonview federal credit union
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 29, 2023
Breach occurred: Aug 28, 2023 – Aug 29, 2023
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 4, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Removed access and blocked any further attempts to access this account
Made immediate enhancements to our systems, security, and practices
Secured the referenced e-mail account
Provided access to Single Bureau Credit Monitoring/Single Bureau Credit Report/Single Bureau Credit Score/Cyber Monitoring services at no charge
Provided proactive assistance to help with any questions that might have or in event that become a victim of fraud through Identity Force
Changes made: Made immediate enhancements to our systems, security, and practices
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 weeks(97 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 · 2 filings · 2 states

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Vermont State AGDec 4 · first · this page

South Carolina State AG+24d

Pattern: first filing Dec 4 (VT), last Dec 28 (SC) — a 24-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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-12-04-sharonview-federal-credit-union-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 4, 2023
Raw hash: d7e8a3829f0c64dd52b45edeae4159a94a8fcd4c9ef184f9398858618073cad9

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySHARONVIEW FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Victim entitySHARONVIEW FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Incidentdiscovered Aug 29, 2023

Stated responseRemoved access and blocked any further attempts to access this account

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov