HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceVulnerability ExploitSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Advantage Gold

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 1, 2025

Filed

Mar 29, 2026

To disclose

26 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Advantage Gold →

Advantage Gold disclosed that unauthorized persons exploited a vulnerability in third-party firewall software to access its networks between late Q3 and early Q4 2025. The incident affected personal information including names, addresses, contact info, limited SSNs, and custodian account numbers. The company engaged cybersecurity experts and counsel, and is offering 24 months of Experian IdentityWorks to affected individuals.

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Massachusetts clock✗ MA AG >90d26 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 · 92 days

discovery → filing · 26 weeks / 179 days

Jul 1, 2025

Begins

Oct 1, 2025

Discovered

Mar 29, 2026

Filed

vs. sector median

+17 wks slower

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_169b81ebe56ee4282026-03-29Candidate
Vermont State AGbd_3b1861f37409e0912026-03-29Verified
California State AGbd_6e5ed94e189888b52026-03-29Verified
Texas State AGbd_cde4ae1eb82122782026-03-30 · +1dVerified

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New Hampshire State AGbd_e831c4d2bbadd0fa2026-03-30 · +1dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_b4195eb2e9c942e92026-03-27 · +2dVerified

Name: Advantage Gold
norm: advantage gold
Domain: advantagegold.com

Name: Advantage Gold
norm: advantage gold
Domain: advantagegold.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 1, 2025
Breach occurred: Jul 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025
Undetected for: 92 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 27, 2026
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: External
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Engaged outside cybersecurity and IT experts to help investigate and contain the incident
Retained outside cybersecurity counsel to assist in fulfilling obligations
Changes made: Offering complimentary access to Experian IdentityWorks for 24 months
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 weeks(179 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MA AG >90d
Discovery-date grounding: 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.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

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Indiana State AGMar 27 · first

Maine State AG+2d

Vermont State AG+2d

California State AG+2d

Massachusetts State AG+2d · this page

Texas State AG+3d

New Hampshire State AG+3d

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://www.mass.gov/doc/2026-484-advantage-gold/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 29, 2026
Raw hash: f8d35e9cf1ebd505942ae6329ecb2021ae194cf3d2721a319783f1bcb49cb693

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAdvantage Gold

Victim entityAdvantage Gold

Incidentdiscovered Oct 1, 2025

Stated responseEngaged outside cybersecurity and IT experts to help investigate and contain the incident

ComplianceMA AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov