HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Northwest Retirement Plan Consultants, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 2, 2024

Filed

Feb 28, 2025

To disclose

26 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Northwest Retirement Plan Consultants, LLC →2 incidents on file

Northwest Retirement Plan Consultants, LLC notified Maryland AG of a security incident where an unauthorized individual acquired personal information (name, DOB, SSN) on or around August 31, 2024. One Maryland resident was identified as affected. The company engaged forensic specialists, notified law enforcement, and offered credit monitoring.

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Maryland clock✗ MD AG >90d26 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days

discovery → filing · 26 weeks / 179 days

Aug 31, 2024

Begins

Sep 2, 2024

Discovered

Feb 28, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+16 wks slower

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

Washington State AGbd_77c6b14202068b332025-02-28Candidate
Montana State AGbd_aab1333d9a5254d22025-02-28Verified

Name: Cipriani
norm: cipriani
Domain: cipriani.com

Name: Northwest Retirement Plan Consultants, LLC
norm: northwest retirement plan consultants
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 2, 2024
Breach occurred: Aug 31, 2024
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 28, 2025
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Maryland Office of the Attorney General

During the incident: Engaged third-party forensic specialists to contain the incident and assist with understanding the nature and scope of the disruption
Took steps to secure its environment
Conducted an investigation
Notified law enforcement
Began providing notice to the potentially affected clients and individuals via U.S. mail
Offering the potentially impacted individuals complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services
Changes made: Enhanced the security of its network to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 weeks(179 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MD AG >90d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Washington State AGFeb 28 · first

Montana State AGFeb 28 · first

Maryland State AGFeb 28 · 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.maryland.gov/resources-info/SBN%20Documents/2025/ITU-376453.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 28, 2025
Raw hash: cbbfce94b1ad533d9b1281818ee22de0c44423ba86ba29af6f604d7789c3275d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCipriani

Victim entityNorthwest Retirement Plan Consultants, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Sep 2, 2024

Stated responseEngaged third-party forensic specialists to contain the incident and assist with understanding the nature and scope of the disruption

ComplianceMD AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov