MalwareFinancial ServicesFinanceRansomwareData EncryptedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Hamilton Investment Group, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 20, 2023

Filed

Jan 18, 2024

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Hamilton Investment Group, LLC →

Hamilton Investment LLC notified Vermont AG on 2024-01-18 of a cybersecurity incident discovered on 2023-09-20 involving a third-party vendor's server. Malware infected the server, allowing unauthorized access to client data including names, DOBs, SSNs, and financial info. No evidence of data misuse was found. The company offered credit monitoring services to affected individuals.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday17 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

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 120 days

Sep 20, 2023

Discovered

Jan 18, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

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

Indiana State AGbd_8a128a1b5d7c82cd2024-01-18Verified
Maine State AGbd_be0de743b1729f9f2024-01-18Candidate

Name: Hamilton Investment Group, LLC
norm: hamilton investment

Name: Hamilton Investment Group, LLC
norm: hamilton investment
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 20, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 18, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Offered a complimentary ##-month membership of Experian’s IdentityWorks
Provided instructions to place fraud alerts with the three credit bureaus
Provided instructions to place a security freeze with the three credit bureaus
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(120 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bday
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 · 3 filings · 3 states

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Indiana State AGJan 18 · first

Maine State AGJan 18 · first

Vermont State AGJan 18 · first · 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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2024-01-18-hamilton-investment-group-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 18, 2024
Raw hash: 573d951010852415fab614bccf367157b62dcd34e23e4474d4a9850421726112

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHamilton Investment Group, LLC

Victim entityHamilton Investment Group, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Sep 20, 2023

Stated responseOffered a complimentary ##-month membership of Experian’s IdentityWorks

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov