HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Advantage Capital Funding

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 6, 2020

Filed

Sep 4, 2020

To disclose

30 weeks

Affected

26state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Advantage Capital Funding →

Advantage Capital Funding, LLC notified individuals of unauthorized access to a third-party hosted database containing merchant loan application data. Access occurred between Feb 6 and Mar 6, 2020. Data included names, SSNs, driver's licenses, and financial account numbers. The company engaged forensic investigators, secured the database, and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 30 weeks / 211 days

Feb 6, 2020

Begins

Feb 6, 2020

Discovered

Sep 4, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+22 wks slower

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_cb2cbd3c5563b51f2020-09-04Verified
California State AGbd_e5b1a4ec18c0d1922020-09-04Verified
Indiana State AGbd_e8af3b75a680e38e2020-09-04Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_276d03efbaf9f8cd2020-09-08 · +4dVerified

Name: Advantage Capital Funding
norm: advantage capital funding

Name: Advantage Capital Funding
norm: advantage capital funding
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 6, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 6, 2020 – Mar 6, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 4, 2020
Affected individuals: 26state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Took the database offline
Engaged a cyber security firm to assist with the investigation
Addressed the security issues resulting in this incident
Arranged for ID Experts to provide complimentary MyIDCare identity theft protection services
Changes made: Implemented a hosted database service policy
Enhanced the service's security to help prevent public accessibility to the system
Implemented document tracking and tracing in the hosted database
Encrypted the database to limit access to select IP addresses
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 30 weeks(211 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Massachusetts State AGSep 4 · first

California State AGSep 4 · first

Indiana State AGSep 4 · first

Montana State AGSep 4 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+4d

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/acf-sample.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 4, 2020
Raw hash: 639529b192d673242dce89bb4f44fa0b4d2bda60b7e549e0bd5503b33bb913bf

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAdvantage Capital Funding

Victim entityAdvantage Capital Funding

Incidentdiscovered Feb 6, 2020

Stated responseTook the database offline

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov