AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIHighContained

HSBC FINANCE CORPORATION

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 13, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

1,337state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for HSBC FINANCE CORPORATION →2 incidents on file

HSBC Finance Corporation notified South Carolina residents of a data security incident where personal information, including names, SSNs, and account numbers, was inadvertently made accessible via the Internet. The incident occurred towards the end of 2014. HSBC contained the access, notified law enforcement and credit bureaus, and offered Identity Guard services to affected customers.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Apr 13, 2015

Filed

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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.

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

California State AGbd_3d7fd7b39104f29e2015-04-10 · +3dCandidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_9ca61cba109a81852015-04-10 · +3dVerified

Name: HSBC FINANCE CORPORATION
norm: hsbc finance

Name: HSBC FINANCE CORPORATION
norm: hsbc finance
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,337state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcementNotified the credit reporting agencies

During the incident: Conducting a thorough review of the potentially affected records
Implemented additional security measures
Ensured that the information is no longer accessible publicly
Notified law enforcement
Notified the credit reporting agencies
Changes made: Implemented additional security measures designed to prevent a recurrence
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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California State AGApr 10 · first

New Hampshire State AGApr 10 · first

South Carolina State AG+3d · 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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2015/HSBC.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 13, 2015
Raw hash: 400d7f30999c1b790195f91dfd4f4f451952210bbea5d159d4067ebc2e1a57c0

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHSBC FINANCE CORPORATION

Victim entityHSBC FINANCE CORPORATION

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseConducting a thorough review of the potentially affected records

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov