HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceVulnerability ExploitData MishandlingSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Franklin Templeton

bd_9ff18d39827ab20c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

May 23, 2023

Filed

May 23, 2023

To disclose

≤1 day

Affected

5state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Franklin Templeton →

Franklin Templeton Investments Corp. reported a third-party breach involving vendor InvestorCOM. A vulnerability in InvestorCOM's GoAnywhere file transfer service was exploited on Jan 30, 2023. The incident affected personal information of 5 New Hampshire residents. Franklin Templeton activated incident response, reviewed impacted files, and notified regulators. No SSNs or dates of birth were involved.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 113 days

discovery → filing · ≤1 day / 0 days

Jan 30, 2023

Begins

May 23, 2023

Discovered

May 23, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5 affectedView incident

Name: Franklin Templeton Investments Corp.
norm: franklin templeton investments

Name: Franklin Templeton
norm: franklin templeton
Domain: franklintempleton.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 23, 2023
Breach occurred: Jan 30, 2023
Undetected for: 113 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 23, 2023
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Reported this incident to privacy, securities and financial regulatory authoritiesInvestorCOM has reported it to law enforcement
Third party: via InvestorCOM
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Activated incident response protocols
Opened their own investigation
Gathering as much information as possible from InvestorCOM
Conducted a thorough review of the impacted files
Reported this incident to privacy, securities and financial regulatory authorities
Changes made: Implemented additional measures to help protect Franklin Templeton Canada account(s)
Enhanced protection protocols for heightened due diligence and monitoring
Tightened controls around account access (via both call center and secure web) and transaction and payment processing
Notified dealers and investment advisor so that they can consider their account controls as well
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: ≤1 day(0 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/franklin-templeton-investments-20230523.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 23, 2023
Raw hash: d92a1f6007c282400f04e43a3b3b9fbd6262a8692d7c25ea490086a35a3b180d

Reporting entityFranklin Templeton Investments Corp.

Victim entityFranklin Templeton

Incidentdiscovered May 23, 2023

Stated responseActivated incident response protocols

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov