Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Homeless Prevention Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 7, 2025

Filed

Mar 26, 2025

To disclose

19 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Homeless Prevention Center →2 incidents on file

Homeless Prevention Center notified consumers of a phishing incident on March 7, 2025, where a staff member clicked a malicious attachment, compromising an email account. A hacker viewed emails containing PII (name, address, SSN) but could not download them. The account was locked immediately. Free credit monitoring is offered.

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Vermont clock✓ VT AG ≤14 bday19 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 19 days

Mar 7, 2025

Begins

Mar 7, 2025

Discovered

Mar 26, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

16 wks faster

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

Name: Homeless Prevention Center
norm: homeless prevention center
Domain: hpcvt.org

Name: Homeless Prevention Center
norm: homeless prevention center
Domain: hpcvt.org
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 7, 2025
Breach occurred: Mar 7, 2025
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 26, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.001 Spearphishing AttachmentT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_attachment

During the incident: Locked the email account to prevent further damage or compromise of data
Worked with industry cyber experts to conduct a thorough investigation of the scope and nature of the incident
Providing free resources on credit monitoring and/or identity theft protection services for one year
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 19 days(19 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG ≤14 bday
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-03-26-homeless-prevention-center-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 26, 2025
Raw hash: 0c90b45c3ef826952b1874cae9c88776d824b5cc660618cba53c7afa7510dc2e

Reporting entityHomeless Prevention Center

Victim entityHomeless Prevention Center

Incidentdiscovered Mar 7, 2025

Stated responseLocked the email account to prevent further damage or compromise of data

ComplianceVT AG ≤14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov