AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

WEDBUSH SECURITIES INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 11, 2025

Filed

Dec 12, 2025

To disclose

22 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for WEDBUSH SECURITIES INC. →

Wedbush Securities Inc. disclosed a data breach resulting from a misconfigured web-facing internal application. Unauthorized actors may have accessed client data, including names, Social Security numbers, and financial account information, between May 17, 2025, and July 11, 2025. The incident was discovered on July 11, 2025. The company secured the application, notified law enforcement, and is offering credit monitoring services to affected individuals.

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California clockDiscovered Jul 11, 2025 → Notified Nov 20, 2025132d ✗ CA 60-day late22 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 55 days

discovery → filing · 22 weeks / 154 days

May 17, 2025

Begins

Jul 11, 2025

Discovered

Dec 12, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+14 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_56be100981d665a82025-12-12Verified

Name: WEDBUSH SECURITIES INC.
norm: wedbush securities
Domain: wedbush.com

Name: WEDBUSH SECURITIES INC.
norm: wedbush securities
Domain: wedbush.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 11, 2025
Breach occurred: May 17, 2025 – Jul 11, 2025
Undetected for: 55 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 20, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Secured the application
Initiated an investigation into the full scope of this activity
Notified law enforcement
Undertook a comprehensive and time-intensive review of the potentially impacted data
Offering access to Single Bureau Credit Monitoring/Single Bureau Credit Report/Single Bureau Credit Score services at no charge
Providing proactive fraud assistance
Changes made: Reviewing our policies and procedures to further protect against similar events moving forward
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 weeks(154 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day late · 132d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Jul 11, 2025
→ Notified: Nov 20, 2025
132d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jul 11, 2025 → Notified: Nov 20, 2025	132d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day late

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGDec 12 · first

California State AGDec 12 · 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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-615706
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 12, 2025
Raw hash: 832fa731781ea3355396ec312135458708a3b986190cf2813de4dc55f7ab29be

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWEDBUSH SECURITIES INC.

Victim entityWEDBUSH SECURITIES INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jul 11, 2025

Stated responseSecured the application

ComplianceCA 60-day late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov