DisclosureLens
HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)PIILowContained

CETERA FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

bd_d72d9cacef1c0c8e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Apr 6, 2020

Filed

Aug 21, 2020

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for CETERA FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. →7 incidents on file

On April 6, 2020, Cetera Financial Group, Inc. detected unauthorized access to an employee's email account. The account was secured within five minutes, and passwords were reset. An investigation determined that personal information, including names, may have been viewed. Affected individuals were offered one year of complimentary identity protection services.

California clockDiscovered Apr 6, 2020 → Notified Aug 21, 2020137d ✗ CA 60-day late20 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 137 days

Apr 6, 2020

Begins

Apr 6, 2020

Discovered

Aug 21, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+10 wks slower

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Illinois State AGJan 1 · first
Washington State AG+233d
Montana State AG+233d
California State AG+233d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Aug 21 (CA) — a 233-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.