AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumResolved

Freedom Debt Relief, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 9, 2023

Filed

Aug 3, 2023

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Freedom Debt Relief, LLC →2 incidents on file

Freedom Debt Relief, LLC notified Montana residents of a data incident where client dashboard authorization misconfiguration allowed clients to access other clients' sensitive documents. The breach affected names, SSNs, and creditor account numbers starting October 27, 2022. The company corrected the authorization process and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 194 days

discovery → filing · 12 weeks / 86 days

Oct 27, 2022

Begins

May 9, 2023

Discovered

Aug 3, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+4 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

Indiana State AGbd_652bdff538c98e712023-08-03Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_ddc6a33e9df5dbf62023-08-03Verified

Name: Freedom Debt Relief, LLC
norm: freedom debt relief

Name: Freedom Debt Relief, LLC
norm: freedom debt relief
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 9, 2023
Breach occurred: Oct 27, 2022
Undetected for: 194 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 3, 2023
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object

During the incident: Corrected the authorization process within our client dashboard system
Put additional measures in place to further protect the security of information in our possession
Review all documents that were inadvertently made accessible to clients
Offering you access to complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services for 12 months through Experian
Changes made: Corrected the authorization process within our client dashboard system
Put additional measures in place to further protect the security of information in our possession
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(86 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Indiana State AGAug 3 · first

Massachusetts State AGAug 3 · first

Montana State AGAug 3 · 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-513.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 3, 2023
Raw hash: 649e6eac126c93c9fd46a03e2b36819b36ecc3825f7e3f68f43c281c8f6bda3f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFreedom Debt Relief, LLC

Victim entityFreedom Debt Relief, LLC

Incidentdiscovered May 9, 2023

Stated responseCorrected the authorization process within our client dashboard system

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov