DisclosureLens
AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumResolved

OPPENHEIMERFUNDS, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 3, 2017

Filed

Nov 14, 2017

To disclose

11 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for OPPENHEIMERFUNDS, INC. →7 incidents on file

OppenheimerFunds, Inc. notified shareholders that between May 24, 2011 and October 16, 2017, certain account information (name, address, SSN, account number) was erroneously sent to a financial services partner. The incident was discovered on November 3, 2017. OppenheimerFunds remediated the error and offered one year of identity protection via Experian.

Incident timeline

undetected · 2355 days
discovery → filing · 11 days

May 24, 2011

Begins

Nov 3, 2017

Discovered

Nov 14, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

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

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.