HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedAuthenticationEmploymentFinancial accountIdentity (basic)Government IDHighContained

MONEYGRAM PAYMENT SYSTEMS, INC.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Sep 20, 2024

Filed

Oct 7, 2024

To disclose

17 days

Affected

1,272scope not determined

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for MONEYGRAM PAYMENT SYSTEMS, INC. →2 incidents on file

MoneyGram Payment Systems, Inc. reported a cybersecurity incident detected on September 20, 2024, involving unauthorized access to corporate systems between September 20 and 22, 2024. The breach compromised consumer PII (names, DOB, SSNs, driver's licenses, bank account numbers) and employee work-related data. 1,272 Washington residents were notified. MoneyGram engaged forensic experts, coordinated with law enforcement, and offered two years of credit monitoring.

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Washington clock✓ WA AG ≤30d17 days discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 17 days

Sep 20, 2024

Begins

Sep 20, 2024

Discovered

Oct 7, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Delaware State AGbd_2268c0d1e1ce0cc72024-10-07Candidate
Indiana State AGbd_824b0799a7eeea492024-10-07Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_c68e6177314cedb62024-10-07Verified
Montana State AGbd_fe9c21d24d34ef982024-10-07Verified

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Illinois State AGbd_e7b4b018bf7ee7ed2024-10-01 · +6dVerified

Name: MONEYGRAM PAYMENT SYSTEMS, INC.
norm: moneygram payment

Name: MONEYGRAM PAYMENT SYSTEMS, INC.
norm: moneygram payment
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 20, 2024
Breach occurred: Sep 20, 2024 – Sep 22, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 7, 2024
Affected individuals: 1,272scope not determined
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmployment
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberDriver's licence numberFinancial account numberDate of birthUsername + password
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 1-99dexposure 1-99d
WA-stated discovery: Found while ongoing
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Washington Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Proactively taking certain systems offline
Activated its incident response plan
Launched an investigation with the assistance of leading external cybersecurity experts
Coordinating with law enforcement authorities
Requiring employees to reset their Company passwords
Arranged to provide U.S. consumers with identity protection and credit monitoring services for two years at no cost to them
Changes made: Put in place additional safeguards to further protect our systems and data
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 days(17 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG ≤30d
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Illinois State AGOct 1 · first

Delaware State AG+6d

Indiana State AG+6d

Massachusetts State AG+6d

Montana State AG+6d

Washington State AG+6d · this page

Pattern: first filing Oct 1 (IL), last Oct 7 (WA) — 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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachA30915.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 7, 2024
Raw hash: ba63b38150e2b0c15a701bab97e6b438bfea465f08140c0bf20c1fd17ccbf7ca

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMONEYGRAM PAYMENT SYSTEMS, INC.

Victim entityMONEYGRAM PAYMENT SYSTEMS, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Sep 20, 2024

Stated responseProactively taking certain systems offline

ComplianceWA AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com