Social EngineeringPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumContained
Acorn Financial Services, Inc.
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Full breach record for Acorn Financial Services, Inc. →Acorn Financial Services notified consumers of a security incident where an employee's email account was compromised via phishing. The attacker accessed emails containing personal information including names, addresses, DOBs, driver's license numbers, SSNs, and financial account numbers. Acorn secured the account, enhanced security protocols, and provided one year of free identity monitoring through Kroll.
Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday23 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.
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_9ad3ddd719839336New Hampshire State AGfiled 2023-01-31Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-01-31-acorn-financial-services-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jan 31, 2023
- Raw hash
- ec76b9ba39ef625f73110049ee59d23fcc0e2ec1998a97823f34ee3e92efd8a6
Reporting entity
- Name
- Acorn Financial Services, Inc.norm: acorn financial
Victim entity
- Name
- Acorn Financial Services, Inc.norm: acorn financial
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 22, 2022
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jan 31, 2023
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 23 weeks(162 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.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.