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William S. Hein & Co., Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 13, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

4 records

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for William S. Hein & Co., Inc. →

William S. Hein & Co., Inc. reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2025-01-13. 3 Massachusetts residents were affected.

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Leak gap clock✗ Leak >180d

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

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Jan 13, 2025

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

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

A leak claim by inc_ransom about this victim was first seen 237 days before this filing.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Siteinc_ransombd_20b586eb6e799bfb2024-04-17 · +271dVerified by operator

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_957668d90579354e2025-01-13Candidate
Maryland State AGbd_7376c74fbd07fb0d2025-11-13 · +304dVerified by operator

Name: William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
norm: william s hein
Domain: wshein.com

Name: William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
norm: william s hein
Domain: wshein.com

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDFinancial accountPCI
Data elements: Social Security numberFinancial account numberDriver's licence numberPayment card number
Stated not affected: Medical information
The filing states these were not involved. Categories absent from both lists were not addressed either way.
Attack vector: Unknown

Compliance flags: Leak >180dMA credit monitoring 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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Maine State AGJan 13 · first

Massachusetts State AGJan 13 · first · this page

Maryland State AG+304d

Pattern: first filing Jan 13 (ME), last Nov 13 (MD) — a 304-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.

Source URL: https://www.mass.gov/doc/data-breach-report-2025/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 13, 2025
Raw hash: b641c2bda4bb3d582de14ed115d921839ae1d5f98e5c21a918c589df70d78321

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWilliam S. Hein & Co., Inc.

Victim entityWilliam S. Hein & Co., Inc.

IncidentUnknown

ComplianceLeak >180d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov