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HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)MediumActive

LCS Financial Services

bd_97f9bfe98bcfb54e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 25, 2023

Filed

Oct 5, 2023

To disclose

32 weeks

Affected

1,394state residents only

Linked

17 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for LCS Financial Services →4 incidents on file

LCS Financial Services, a nationwide debt collection agency, notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a data security incident affecting 1,394 NH residents. Unauthorized access occurred on or about February 24, 2023, and was discovered by LCS on February 25, 2023. The incident involved the acquisition of personal information without authorization. LCS engaged forensic experts, reported the incident to the FBI, and mailed notification letters to affected individuals offering credit monitoring and identity theft protection services. No evidence of misuse was found as of the filing date.

Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days
discovery → filing · 32 weeks / 222 days

Feb 24, 2023

Begins

Feb 25, 2023

Discovered

Oct 5, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+23 wks slower

This filing is one of 17 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 19d gap

Showing first 10 of 16 linked disclosures.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗
Oregon State AGSep 22 · first
Vermont State AG+13d
Delaware State AG+13d
California State AG+13d
New Hampshire State AG+13d · this page
South Carolina State AG+14d
Delaware State AG+32d
New Hampshire State AG+32d
California State AG+32d
Vermont State AG+32d
HHS OCR+32d

Pattern: first filing Sep 22 (OR), last Oct 24 (CO) — a 32-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 16 — the full spread may be wider.

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.