Social EngineeringCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

First Advantage Corporation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 17, 2025

Filed

Jul 30, 2026

To disclose

36 weeks

Affected

75state residents only

Linked

15 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for First Advantage Corporation →

First Advantage Corporation experienced a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to a single employee's account via sophisticated phishing. The unauthorized party accessed the account on or about November 13, 2025, and downloaded the employee's email inbox. Affected data includes names and variable PII elements. First Advantage disabled the account, enhanced system safeguards, and offered two years of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Cyberscout/TransUnion. No fraud or identity theft has been confirmed to date.

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Massachusetts clock✗ MA AG >90d36 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 4 days

discovery → filing · 36 weeks / 255 days

Nov 13, 2025

Begins

Nov 17, 2025

Discovered

Jul 30, 2026

Filed

This filing is one of 15 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_e4fb2169f33566b32026-07-27 · +3dVerified
Texas State AGbd_a5c639bb7f3225112026-07-23 · +7dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_aeea61f037e62f332026-06-29 · +31dVerified
Texas State AGbd_efcc039ef6dc446c2026-09-03 · +35dVerified by operator

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 62d gap

Texas State AGbd_70c9415659c8f8232026-06-25 · +35dCandidate
Vermont State AGbd_4082b19584e92d012026-06-24 · +36dVerified
California State AGbd_ad4377b91320f0382026-06-23 · +37dVerified
Texas State AGbd_f38f341da505889b2026-06-09 · +51dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_15d448d2bfc773842026-06-04 · +56dVerified
Texas State AGbd_8e533f2a45bfae752026-05-29 · +62dVerified

Showing first 10 of 14 linked disclosures.

Name: First Advantage Corporation
norm: first advantage

Name: First Advantage Corporation
norm: first advantage

Discovered: Nov 17, 2025
Breach occurred: Nov 13, 2025
Undetected for: 4 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 75state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Disabled the employee’s account
Implemented a number of safeguards across our systems to enhance our security
Offering you two years of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Cyberscout, a TransUnion company
Changes made: Implemented a number of safeguards across our systems to enhance our security
Continuing to evaluate additional steps we can take and additional safeguards we can implement
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 36 weeks(255 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MA AG >90d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Texas State AGMay 29 · first

New Hampshire State AG+6d

Texas State AG+11d

California State AG+25d

Vermont State AG+26d

Texas State AG+27d

New Hampshire State AG+31d

Texas State AG+55d

New Hampshire State AG+59d

Massachusetts State AG+62d · this page

Texas State AG+97d

Pattern: first filing May 29 (TX), last Sep 3 (TX) — a 97-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 14 — the full spread may be wider.

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/2026-1251-first-advantage-corporation/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 30, 2026
Raw hash: 89309c69d3de3e4325eb4b250db362a0bacc65935e29bdf55fef0ec9ba75a093

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFirst Advantage Corporation

Victim entityFirst Advantage Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Nov 17, 2025

Stated responseDisabled the employee’s account

ComplianceMA AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov