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HackingTechnologyInformationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Forum Communications Company

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 31, 2025

Filed

Mar 19, 2025

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Forum Communications Company

Forum Communications Company notified consumers of a data breach where an unauthorized party accessed systems between Jan 14-31, 2025. Personal information was acquired. No evidence of identity theft was found. The company offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks credit monitoring. The incident is contained.

Vermont clock VT AG >14 bday7 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.

Incident timeline

undetected · 17 days
discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 47 days

Jan 14, 2025

Begins

Jan 31, 2025

Discovered

Mar 19, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

12 wks faster

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Show 3 more filingsup to 5d gap

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 8 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Mar 14 (IN), last Mar 19 (VT) — a 5-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.