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HackingTechnologyInformationStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)LowContained

Chess.com, LLC

bd_fcd24aa03b555a7d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jun 19, 2025

Filed

Sep 3, 2025

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

67%
Full breach record for Chess.com, LLC

Chess.com notified Vermont consumers of a data breach involving unauthorized access to a third-party file transfer application between June 5 and 18, 2025. The incident affected fewer than 0.003% of users, exposing names and other personal information. No financial data was compromised. Chess.com contained the incident, notified law enforcement, and provided credit monitoring and identity theft recovery services to affected individuals.

Vermont clock VT AG >45 bday11 weeks discovery → filing
unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 14 days
discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 76 days

Jun 5, 2025

Begins

Jun 19, 2025

Discovered

Sep 3, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filingup to 5d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
Indiana State AGSep 3 · first
Maine State AGSep 3 · first
Nebraska State AGSep 3 · first
Vermont State AGSep 3 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Sep 3 (MA), last Sep 8 (NH) — a 5-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.