Reported to the OR Attorney General on September 16, 2025.
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Check My Rights →Benworth Capital Partners was the subject of a data breach notification filed with the OR Attorney General. The AG filing was recorded on September 16, 2025. The breach or discovery date reported in the filing is May 23, 2025.
Benworth Capital Partners operates as a private lender, real estate investment firm, and financial intermediary that structures specialized commercial loans, bridge financing, and alternative investment products. Because of its core operations, the firm routinely collects, processes, and maintains vast quantities of highly sensitive non-public personal information from borrowers, investors, and high-net-worth individuals. This sensitive financial ecosystem requires the collection of extensive documentation, including detailed credit profiles, tax returns, bank statements, asset valuations, and direct routing details to facilitate complex lending transactions and capital distributions. In 2025, Benworth Capital Partners formally reported a significant data security incident to the Oregon Attorney General, alerting affected individuals that their private records had been compromised. While exact technical forensics vary, security incidents involving financial and investment institutions typically stem from sophisticated cyberattacks, such as unauthorized intrusions into internal databases, compromised cloud storage environments, or third-party vendor vulnerabilities. These breaches often exploit systemic weaknesses in network perimeters, allowing malicious actors to dwell undetected within corporate networks and exfiltrate confidential files containing proprietary and consumer data. The exposure of financial and personal data in a breach of this magnitude creates severe, long-term risks for every affected victim. When files containing Social Security numbers, dates of birth, financial account numbers, and detailed tax records are compromised, individuals face an immediate and elevated threat of identity theft, synthetic credit creation, and unauthorized account takeovers. Because financial data cannot be easily changed like a password, victims are exposed to ongoing risks of fraudulent loan applications, unauthorized withdrawals, and tax return fraud that can severely damage their financial standing for years to come. As a financial institution handling sensitive consumer data, Benworth Capital Partners was bound by stringent legal obligations under federal and state frameworks, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and applicable Oregon consumer protection laws. These regulatory standards mandate that financial entities implement rigorous administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect non-public personal information from unauthorized access and disclosure. The occurrence of a data breach of this scale strongly indicates a failure to maintain adequate security controls, encryption standards, or timely threat-monitoring protocols, giving rise to potential legal liability for negligence and breach of implied contract. Receiving a data breach notification letter from Benworth Capital Partners serves as formal legal acknowledgment that your confidential information was compromised due to inadequate corporate security practices. Under modern class action jurisprudence, the receipt of such a notice establishes legal standing to pursue financial compensation and injunctive relief, without requiring you to first prove that fraudulent charges have already occurred. Our firm is currently investigating potential legal claims on behalf of all affected individuals, operating on a strict contingency fee basis, meaning there are never any out-of-pocket costs or fees unless we successfully recover compensation for you.
Based on the data types reported in this filing, affected individuals face the following specific risks:
Your SSN is the master key to your identity. Once exposed, criminals can open new lines of credit, take out loans, or file taxes in your name.
Combined with a name and other leaked data, date of birth helps criminals pass identity verification questions at banks and government agencies.
Under the Oregon Consumer Information Protection Act, you may have a legal claim against Benworth Capital Partners if any of the following apply:
Applicable law: This breach was reported under the Oregon Consumer Information Protection Act, which establishes your right to seek damages from Benworth Capital Partners.
The hours spent responding to a data breach — canceling accounts, contacting credit bureaus, updating passwords, and investigating fraud — represent compensable economic harm in data breach litigation.
Once your SSN is exposed, protection becomes an ongoing expense. Plaintiffs in data breach settlements have recovered costs for credit freezes, identity protection subscriptions, and time spent dealing with fraudulent accounts — sometimes covering multiple years of exposure.
Fees charged to close and reopen accounts, issue replacement cards, or dispute fraudulent transactions are recoverable in data breach litigation. So are the costs of overdrafts, late payments, and credit damage caused by unauthorized activity.
Several state data breach laws provide for statutory minimum damages — fixed amounts recoverable per affected individual regardless of actual loss. These provisions exist specifically to make legal action viable for victims who have not yet experienced direct harm.
Note: an attorney general breach filing does not by itself establish a settlement fund, a payment amount, or a claim deadline. If an official settlement notice is later issued, rely on that notice for payment details and deadlines.
No. Under Oregon Consumer Information Protection Act and federal law, the unauthorized exposure of your personal data — regardless of whether it has been actively misused — can be sufficient grounds for a claim. The breach itself is the injury.
Nothing. The Law Office of David S. Harris handles data breach cases on contingency — you pay zero upfront and owe nothing unless compensation is recovered.
Immediately place a free credit freeze at all three bureaus (Equifax, Experian, TransUnion). A freeze blocks new accounts from being opened in your name. Then file a complaint with the FTC at IdentityTheft.gov and contact our office — SSN exposure is one of the most serious breach types.
Banks may reverse fraudulent charges, but they are not obligated to compensate you for time lost, stress, or indirect damages. A class action claim against the breached company can recover those additional categories of harm.
Statutes of limitations for data breach claims vary by state but typically run 2–4 years. Depending on when you learned of the breach, you may still have time. Contact our office for a free eligibility review — there is no cost to find out.
Accepting free credit monitoring from Benworth Capital Partners does not waive your right to pursue legal action unless you signed a specific release waiving claims. In most cases, victims who accepted monitoring can still file.
Not necessarily. Many data breach victims are never notified directly. If your personal information was held by Benworth Capital Partners during the relevant period, you may still qualify even without receiving a letter. A free eligibility review can confirm your status.
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Source: State Attorney General filing, OR
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