HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumActive

CETERA FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 24, 2026

To disclose

—

Affected

110state residents only

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for CETERA FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. →7 incidents on file

Cetera Financial Group notified the NH Attorney General of an incident where an unauthorized person accessed a single employee email account between July 7, 2025, and August 21, 2025. The investigation is ongoing. 110 New Hampshire residents were affected, with exposure of names, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and financial account information. Notices were sent on March 25, 2026. The company engaged law enforcement and is offering credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

Jul 7, 2025

Begins

Mar 24, 2026

Filed

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_38d64e1aec0e87c12026-03-25 · +1dVerified
Vermont State AGbd_79058398589604ae2026-03-25 · +1dVerified
California State AGbd_a95f62f6f2279f592026-03-25 · +1dCandidate
Nebraska State AGbd_b232078529a074612026-03-25 · +1dVerified

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Indiana State AGbd_b2cf5e2691400e242026-03-25 · +1dVerified
Maine State AGbd_c8e60806383a31ea2026-03-25 · +1dVerified
Texas State AGbd_05000564b48b0cef2026-03-27 · +3dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_cb620fafd1e856a02026-03-01 · +23dVerified

Name: Cetera Financial Group
norm: cetera financial group

Name: CETERA FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.
norm: cetera financial
Domain: cetera.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Jul 7, 2025 – Aug 21, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 25, 2026
Affected individuals: 110state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Providing notice of the Event to relevant regulators

During the incident: Took steps to secure their systems
Assess the security of CFG systems
Investigate the activity to determine what happened
Notified federal law enforcement regarding the Event
Providing notice of the Event to relevant regulators
Providing notice to the three major credit reporting agencies
Providing access to complimentary credit monitoring services for 12 or 24 months, through IDX
Changes made: Reviewing and enhancing its existing policies and procedures relating to data and cyber security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 9 states

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Illinois State AGMar 1 · first

New Hampshire State AG+23d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+24d

Vermont State AG+24d

California State AG+24d

Nebraska State AG+24d

Indiana State AG+24d

Maine State AG+24d

Texas State AG+26d

Pattern: first filing Mar 1 (IL), last Mar 27 (TX) — a 26-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/cetera-financial-group-20260324.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 24, 2026
Raw hash: 48daf2048cd5499049196c0d1faf4d364d81dd055b2043f18786c28285cec21d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCetera Financial Group

Victim entityCETERA FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseTook steps to secure their systems

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov