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Advance America

bd_e2398760aecf29e7 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 23, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Advance America

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Black Basta on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Financial ServicesDiscovered: 2023-03-23

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Since 1997, Advance America has provided short-term financial services to millions of customers across the United States. Our Company has grown to become one of the nations largest consumer lending companies, with more than 2,400 locations.At Advance America, we believe in better. We believe that setbacks are just opportunities for epic comebacks and we want to help make those comebacks happen.That’s why for the past 25+ years, Advance America has worked to become one of the nation’s leading providers of consumer financial services, with online lending and over 900 locations nationwide.At Advance America, we believe that our customers are more than a transaction, and we know that with a little bit of help, they can keep going today and look forward to tomorrow.SITE: www.advanceamerica.net Address 135 N Church St, SpartanburgSouth Carolina, 29306United States

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 23, 2023

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

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 · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteMar 23 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Mar 23, last Aug 15 (VT) — a 144-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.