Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Acorn Financial Services, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 22, 2022

Filed

Aug 9, 2022

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Acorn Financial Services, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Acorn Financial Services notified Montana residents of a security incident on April 22, 2022, involving unauthorized access to an employee's email account via phishing. The incident potentially exposed personal information including names, addresses, SSNs, driver's license numbers, and financial account numbers. Acorn secured the account, launched an investigation, and provided 12 months of complimentary identity monitoring through Kroll.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 109 days

Apr 22, 2022

Discovered

Aug 9, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+7 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Acorn Financial Services, Inc.
norm: acorn financial

Name: Acorn Financial Services, Inc.
norm: acorn financial
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Apr 22, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the account
Launched an investigation
Implemented additional measures to enhance existing security protocols
Re-educating staff for awareness on these types of incidents
Provided identity monitoring at no cost for 12 months through Kroll
Changes made: Implemented additional measures to enhance existing security protocols
Re-educating staff for awareness on these types of incidents
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 weeks(109 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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-482.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 9, 2022
Raw hash: 7156969ec152ec5c0d2f2d4d76a7b2c0b7b2462a9604c2eda217b6e50b13f5eb

Reporting entityAcorn Financial Services, Inc.

Victim entityAcorn Financial Services, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Apr 22, 2022

Stated responseSecured the account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov