HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

NewSquare

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 25, 2021

Filed

Jun 9, 2021

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for NewSquare →

NewSquare Capital LLC notified clients that an unauthorized third party accessed a company email account on or before March 25, 2021. The account may have contained client names, SSNs, and account numbers. NewSquare engaged forensic investigators and offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 76 days

Mar 25, 2021

Begins

Mar 25, 2021

Discovered

Jun 9, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+2 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2 affectedView incident

Name: NewSquare
norm: newsquare

Name: NewSquare
norm: newsquare
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 25, 2021
Breach occurred: Mar 25, 2021
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Promptly took steps to prevent any further access to the email account
Engaged a forensic security firm to investigate and confirm the security of our email and computer systems
Offering a complimentary one-year membership of Experian IdentityWorks SM Credit 3B
Changes made: Enhancing the oversight of our technical security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 weeks(76 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/newsquare-notif.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 9, 2021
Raw hash: be1ca03a7be5cd3b8e059434505008414f81a98225f006054290eb10c35220f6

Reporting entityNewSquare

Victim entityNewSquare

Incidentdiscovered Mar 25, 2021

Stated responsePromptly took steps to prevent any further access to the email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov