HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Green Dot Corporation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 11, 2024

Filed

Nov 1, 2024

To disclose

21 days

Affected

1,715state residents only

Confidence

71%

Full breach record for Green Dot Corporation →

Green Dot Corporation notified Washington residents of a security incident discovered on October 11, 2024. An unauthorized third party used valid credentials to request and receive personal information (name, date of birth) from a Green Dot system. 1,715 Washington residents were affected. Green Dot engaged outside experts and blocked the access.

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Washington clock✓ WA AG ≤30d21 days discovery → filing

⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 4 days

discovery → filing · 21 days

Oct 7, 2024

Begins

Oct 11, 2024

Discovered

Nov 1, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,715 affectedView incident

Name: Green Dot Corporation
norm: green dot

Name: Green Dot Corporation
norm: green dot
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 11, 2024
Breach occurred: Oct 7, 2024 – Oct 11, 2024
Undetected for: 4 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 1, 2024
Affected individuals: 1,715state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)
Data elements: NameDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Unauthorized Access
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 1-99dexposure 1-99d
WA-stated discovery: Found while ongoingContained same day
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Filed notice with Washington Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Launched an investigation into the matter
Engaged outside experts
Blocking the unauthorized access
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 days(21 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG ≤30d
Discovery-date grounding: AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachA31249.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 1, 2024
Raw hash: 44473c484bad8a3402df4a388468df212cd7927cd082c70983b80e7a8fadef2a

Reporting entityGreen Dot Corporation

Victim entityGreen Dot Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Oct 11, 2024

Stated responseLaunched an investigation into the matter

ComplianceWA AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com