Betterment Holding Company LLC
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Full breach record for Betterment Holding Company LLC →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Shinyhunters on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Size: 1.6 GB (compressed) | Records: 20M Records | Updated: 23 Jan 2026 | Note: Betterment better(get some)help | Betterment refused our generous offers as low as $0.95 per active customer record stolen. If you are a Betterment customer, remember that they value your privacy and peace of mind lower than the price of a roll of toilet paper.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Sep 28, 2025
Claim posted
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Corroborated · see linked filings
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
Claim → filing
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Compliance clock
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- Washington State AGbd_60f10ab38308822c2026-03-27 · +179dVerified
- Massachusetts State AGbd_137fe8f3cf8e77e42026-08-05 · +310dVerified by operator
Filing propagation · 3 filings · 2 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Sep 28, last Aug 5 (MA) — a 310-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.
Source ceiling
- actor name
- victim claim
- ransom/leak status
- discovery date
- materiality
- notification
- affected count
- confirmed data types
- compliance clock
The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
shinyhunters
According to ransomware.live, ShinyHunters is a financially motivated data-theft and extortion group active since 2020, responsible for high-profile breaches including Ticketmaster (via Snowflake) and PowerSchool; by 2025 they launched a RaaS offering called "shinysp1d3r," and in August 2025 French authorities arrested four members.