HackingTechnologyInformationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

Vice Media LLC

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 29, 2022

Filed

Jan 30, 2023

To disclose

44 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Vice Media LLC →

Vice Media LLC notified Vermont consumers of a March 2022 incident involving unauthorized access to an internal email account. The breach may have exposed names and other personal information. Vice engaged cybersecurity firms, implemented additional security measures, and offered Equifax credit monitoring and identity theft insurance to affected individuals.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday44 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 · 44 weeks / 307 days

Mar 29, 2022

Discovered

Jan 30, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+33 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_48cfa3cd9321ba1f2023-01-30Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_9c79df653fb015fb2023-01-30Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_f829ff4f298807072023-01-30Verified
Maine State AGbd_3a03ab45feca58c62023-01-31 · +1dVerified

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Maine State AGbd_c357a0587ab446692023-01-26 · +4dCandidate

Name: Vice Media LLC
norm: vice media
Domain: vice.com

Name: Vice Media LLC
norm: vice media
Domain: vice.com
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Mar 29, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 30, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Engaged leading cybersecurity firms to conduct an investigation
Implemented additional security measures to reduce the risk of a similar incident occurring in the future
Providing notice of this potential incident
Providing identity and credit monitoring services through Equifax
Changes made: Implemented additional security measures to reduce the risk of a similar incident occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 44 weeks(307 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 · 6 filings · 5 states

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Maine State AGJan 26 · first

Indiana State AG+4d

Massachusetts State AG+4d

New Hampshire State AG+4d

Vermont State AG+4d · this page

Maine State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Jan 26 (ME), last Jan 31 (ME) — a 5-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.

Source URL: https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-01-30-vice-media-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 30, 2023
Raw hash: 8f1886ce4ccad4f0981f404ba9cbe478bd58ca56d47fd65598cfd42fb0103101

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityVice Media LLC

Victim entityVice Media LLC

Incidentdiscovered Mar 29, 2022

Stated responseEngaged leading cybersecurity firms to conduct an investigation

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov