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HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDHigh

Loren D. Stark Company

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Severity

High

Discovered

Jun 16, 2023

Filed

Aug 4, 2023

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected · nationwide

51,65962 in this filing

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Loren D. Stark Company →

Loren D. Stark Company, a financial services firm, reported a data breach resulting from an external system hack that occurred on October 18, 2022. The breach was discovered on June 16, 2023, and affected 51,659 individuals. The compromised information includes names and Social Security numbers. The company began notifying affected individuals on August 4, 2023, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Experian.

Maine clockDiscovered Jun 16, 2023 → Filed with AG Aug 4, 202349d ⏱ ME AG >30d7 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 241 days
discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 49 days

Oct 18, 2022

Begins

Jun 16, 2023

Discovered

Aug 4, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Show 3 more filings ↓up to 19d gap

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 8 states

View merged incident ↗
Indiana State AGAug 4 · first
California State AGAug 4 · first
Vermont State AGAug 4 · first
Maine State AGAug 4 · first · this page
Montana State AG+1d
New Hampshire State AG+7d
Massachusetts State AG+18d
South Carolina State AG+19d

Pattern: first filing Aug 4 (IN), last Aug 23 (SC) — a 19-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.