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HackingFinanceFinancial accountFinancial credentialsMediumResolved

American Bank Systems

bd_c3ec34e08e92be19 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 16, 2020

Filed

Dec 16, 2020

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected · nationwide

45,40221 in this filing

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for American Bank Systems →4 incidents on file

American Bank Systems, a commercial entity, experienced an external system breach (hacking) on October 22, 2020, which was discovered on November 16, 2020. The breach affected 21 Maine residents and compromised financial account information. Affected individuals were notified on December 16, 2020, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring from TransUnion.

Maine clockDiscovered Nov 16, 2020 → Filed with AG Dec 16, 202030d ✓ ME AG ≤30d4 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 · 25 days
discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Oct 22, 2020

Begins

Nov 16, 2020

Discovered

Dec 16, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGDec 4 · first
Maine State AG+12d · this page
Maine State AG+48d
Massachusetts State AG+48d

Pattern: first filing Dec 4 (MT), last Jan 21 (MA) — a 48-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.