Index Fund Advisors, Inc. — August 2021 breach

Clustered 8 filings across 6 jurisdictions · filing window Dec 17, 2021 → Jan 12, 2022. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 2 cross-filing discrepancies →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

8 filings

States

Affected · reported

10,968

First → last filing

Dec 17, 2021 → Jan 12, 2022

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_da706d7b9d9a4ec3 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 8 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Aug 5, 2021, discovered Aug 5, 2021 — the first regulatory filing landed 134 days later (flagged late). 10,968 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), Financial account, and 2 more. Notifications rolled out on a 26-day schedule across 8 filings beginning Dec 17, 2021. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental

Notification delay

134days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance

117days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span

26days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksCalifornia✗ CA 60-day late · 134dMaine✓ ME AG ≤30d · 17dMassachusetts✓ MA credit monitoring dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

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