Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Evanson Asset Management

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 9, 2017

Filed

Feb 17, 2017

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Evanson Asset Management →

Evanson Asset Management notified customers of a phishing incident on Jan 9-10, 2017, where employee computers were compromised. Personal info including SSNs, names, and financial account numbers were potentially exposed. The firm notified custodians and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 39 days

Jan 9, 2017

Begins

Jan 9, 2017

Discovered

Feb 17, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_f4bca996714a55442017-02-14 · +3dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_93fafcfd7a8302b42017-02-13 · +4dVerified

Name: Evanson Asset Management
norm: evanson asset management
Domain: evansonasset.com

Name: Evanson Asset Management
norm: evanson asset management
Domain: evansonasset.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 9, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 9, 2017 – Jan 10, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified the financial institutions with whom your funds are custodied
Offering you a complimentary credit monitoring product
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(39 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGFeb 13 · first

Montana State AG+1d

South Carolina State AG+4d · this page

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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2017/EvansonAssetManagement.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 17, 2017
Raw hash: 4ce3223c24a78e027b86ca5e9a21576ebfc541104b7b9f0dbd8a9e738f99c824

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityEvanson Asset Management

Victim entityEvanson Asset Management

Incidentdiscovered Jan 9, 2017

Stated responseNotified the financial institutions with whom your funds are custodied

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov