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Social EngineeringIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

J.M. Forbes & Co.

bd_98d54460da9f9c8f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 17, 2025

Filed

Jul 6, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for J.M. Forbes & Co.

JM Forbes and Co experienced a security incident on November 17, 2025, involving suspicious activity on its email system. An unauthorized external party gained access to an employee email account via social engineering (business email compromise attempt) to redirect payments. The attempt was stopped before fraudulent transactions occurred. Affected data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and account numbers. JM Forbes notified affected individuals starting April 8, 2026, and offered two years of complimentary credit monitoring.

Incident timeline

Nov 17, 2025

Discovered

Jul 6, 2026

Filed

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 90d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
Vermont State AGApr 7 · first
Maine State AGApr 7 · first
Nebraska State AG+90d · this page

Pattern: first filing Apr 7 (VT), last Jul 6 (NE) — a 90-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.