HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedPIICredentialsIdentity (basic)LowContained

Transportation Federal Credit Union

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Nov 15, 2023

Filed

Feb 7, 2024

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Transportation Federal Credit Union →

Transportation Federal Credit Union notified consumers of a data breach where an unauthorized third party accessed employee email accounts between August 30 and November 15, 2023. The incident involved the viewing of personal information. The credit union secured accounts, engaged forensic investigators, and offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday12 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 · 77 days

discovery → filing · 12 weeks / 84 days

Aug 30, 2023

Begins

Nov 15, 2023

Discovered

Feb 7, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+4 wks slower

This filing is one of 3 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_2af0877b9833768c2024-02-07Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_a9780ab41f4fe51a2024-02-07Verified

Name: Transportation Federal Credit Union
norm: transportation federal credit union

Name: Transportation Federal Credit Union
norm: transportation federal credit union
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 15, 2023
Breach occurred: Aug 30, 2023 – Nov 15, 2023
Undetected for: 77 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 7, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIICredentialsIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Promptly secured the email accounts
Began an internal investigation
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: Evaluating steps to reduce the risk of this type of incident occurring in the future, including enhancing our technical security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(84 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 · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGFeb 7 · first

New Hampshire State AGFeb 7 · first

Vermont State AGFeb 7 · 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/2024-02-07-transportation-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: Feb 7, 2024
Raw hash: e520e72c5eaaff1d4f07be6acb36ddb329b667ddb5bd833be445bb709a02bebe

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTransportation Federal Credit Union

Victim entityTransportation Federal Credit Union

Incidentdiscovered Nov 15, 2023

Stated responsePromptly secured the email accounts

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov