MisuseFinancial ServicesFinanceKnowledge AbuseTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumResolved

Freedom Financial Network

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 1, 2019

Filed

Mar 31, 2020

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Freedom Financial Network →

Freedom Financial Network notified Montana residents of a data breach in December 2019 involving a former employee who shared consumer PII (names, SSNs, credit card numbers) with a third party. The company reported the incident to authorities, is cooperating with prosecution, and offered one year of complimentary identity monitoring via Kroll.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 121 days

Dec 1, 2019

Discovered

Mar 31, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_04896f19cfd928c92020-03-31Verified
Indiana State AGbd_dcd973638d7d663d2020-03-31Verified
Montana State AGbd_57f9c3f7d8cba4902020-04-02 · +2dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_d4622d05e77188232020-04-06 · +6dVerified

Name: Freedom Financial Network
norm: freedom financial network

Name: Freedom Financial Network
norm: freedom financial network
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 1, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Freedom reported this matter to the authorities
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Freedom reported this matter to the authorities
Actively cooperating with the prosecution
Offering you access to one year of complimentary identity monitoring services through Kroll
Changes made: Reviewing its internal procedures
Working to implement additional safeguards to help protect information in its possession
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(121 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGMar 31 · first

Indiana State AGMar 31 · first

Montana State AGMar 31 · first · this page

Montana State AG+2d

New Hampshire State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Mar 31 (MA), last Apr 6 (NH) — a 6-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/doc-23-1.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 31, 2020
Raw hash: beb78306b7fe6e561617148c21e699522b31c00cf9c5d38f09390569f0e333cb

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFreedom Financial Network

Victim entityFreedom Financial Network

Incidentdiscovered Dec 1, 2019

Stated responseFreedom reported this matter to the authorities

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov