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Forum Communications Company
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Full breach record for Forum Communications Company →Forum Communications Company (Fargo, ND) reported an external hacking incident in which an unauthorized party accessed certain computer systems between January 14 and January 31, 2025, acquiring copies of files containing personal information. The breach was discovered on February 21, 2025. Total affected persons: 28,830; Maine residents affected: 2. Notifications sent March 19, 2025. Experian IdentityWorks Credit 3B (12 months) offered to affected individuals.
Maine clockDiscovered Feb 21, 2025 → Filed with AG Mar 19, 202526d ✓ ME AG ≤30d26 days 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.
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
- bd_26a5439a66ce6fb7Montana State AGfiled 2025-03-19Candidate
- bd_acd217cd853fbc49Maryland State AGfiled 2025-03-19Verified
- bd_af4ff1acbb090684Vermont State AGfiled 2025-03-19Verified
- bd_f07170d221fa9754New Hampshire State AGfiled 2025-03-19Verified
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- bd_ace0038a53632261Indiana State AGfiled 2025-03-14(5d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318/788894ad-80a6-44b4-921c-16806027c921.html
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Mar 19, 2025
- Raw hash
- d6ce549f83cf92e6a774ec0e61bf0892b2a19d6b5b198aecd4e2ea79ef65113f
Reporting entity
- Name
- Forum Communications Companynorm: forum communications
- Industry
- Other Commercial
Victim entity
- Name
- Forum Communications Companynorm: forum communications
- Industry
- Other Commercial
- Industry
- Telecom & Mediallm
Incident
- Discovered
- Feb 21, 2025
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Mar 19, 2025
- Affected individuals
- 2
- Data types
- PII
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 ChannelT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 26 days(26 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- ME AG ≤30d · 26d
- 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.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status Maine Discovered: Feb 21, 2025→ Filed with AG: Mar 19, 202526d 30 days ME AG ≤30d
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.