CETERA FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.
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Full breach record for CETERA FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. →7 incidents on fileCetera Financial Group, Inc. notified Montana residents of an unauthorized access to an employee email account on April 6, 2020. The incident involved phishing leading to credential compromise. Personal information including names was potentially exposed. The company secured the account, reset passwords, and offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks services.
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Incident timeline
Apr 6, 2020
Begins
Apr 6, 2020
Discovered
Aug 21, 2020
Filed
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap
- Washington State AGbd_d28fdbc51402468e2020-08-21Verified
- California State AGbd_d72d9cacef1c0c8e2020-08-21Verified
- Illinois State AGbd_2ed9e7845b80eabd2020-01-01 · +233dCandidate
Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Aug 21 (MT) — a 233-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?
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Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
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