Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

J.W. COLE FINANCIAL, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 20, 2023

Filed

Oct 11, 2023

To disclose

21 days

Affected

5state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for J.W. COLE FINANCIAL, INC. →8 incidents on file

J.W. Cole Financial, Inc. notified clients of a data breach where an unknown third party accessed an employee email account, potentially acquiring emails containing names, SSNs, and financial account numbers. The incident was discovered on September 20, 2023, and notifications were sent on September 29, 2023. The company updated passwords and offered one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 21 days

Sep 20, 2023

Discovered

Oct 11, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5 affectedView incident

Name: J.W. COLE FINANCIAL, INC.
norm: jw cole financial

Name: J.W. COLE FINANCIAL, INC.
norm: jw cole financial
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 20, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 29, 2023
Affected individuals: 5state-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 AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Began an internal investigation
Confirmed pertinent passwords were updated
Reviewed the contents of the emails involved
Offering a complimentary one-year membership of Equifax Credit WatchTM Gold
Changes made: Evaluating steps to reduce the risk of this type of incident occurring in the future, including enhancing our technical security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 days(21 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-762.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 11, 2023
Raw hash: 5d3a14489c8291c30a4fdc1462ef1f0ec84ff38b36b168da467554270d411056

Reporting entityJ.W. COLE FINANCIAL, INC.

Victim entityJ.W. COLE FINANCIAL, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Sep 20, 2023

Stated responseBegan an internal investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov