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Marquis Software Solutions data breach: why your bank or credit union's vendor wrote to you

Compiled from public records. Updated 2026-11-14. By the cisonews.net Desk.

Marquis Software Solutions, a marketing and communications vendor for banks and credit unions, says it found suspicious activity on its network on or around August 14, 2025. An unauthorized third party had got in and may have copied files holding customers' data. Letters have gone out in waves since late 2025, on behalf of dozens of financial institutions. Texas counts 354,289 Texans and Washington 269,773 Washingtonians, and one client, Old National Bank, reported 672,075 people in total to Indiana. The letters offer Epiq identity protection.

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Why did I get a letter from Marquis Software Solutions?

Marquis says it has your information because one of its customers, a financial institution, gave it data for marketing and communications work. That customer had your information because you bank with it now, banked with it before, or were party to a transaction involving it. Marquis says the incident was limited to its own systems and did not affect the customer's.

Washington's attorney general lists one Marquis notice naming more than 30 institutions, among them Gesa Credit Union, Suncoast Credit Union, TowneBank, Michigan First Credit Union, Cape Cod Five and Valley Strong Credit Union. A separate Washington notice comes from Industrial Credit Union of Whatcom County. The guide to letters from companies you never dealt with explains how vendor breaches reach customers.

What happened at Marquis?

Marquis says it began an investigation with cybersecurity experts and notified law enforcement promptly. The December 2025 letter says Marquis found on October 27, 2025 which people's data was in the copied files. The March 2026 letter says one customer reviewed the affected files itself on December 10, 2025, then confirmed the people involved and found their current addresses.

DateWhat the letters and the regulators' records say
August 14, 2025Suspicious activity found on Marquis's network
October 27, 2025Marquis identifies whose data was in the copied files
November 26, 2025Washington notices (269,773 and 24,526 residents); Indiana 2025 report records 34,805 Indiana residents
December 2, 2025First notice recorded by California; posted by Texas (354,289 Texans)
December 10, 2025One customer reviews the affected files
February 11, 2026Second notice recorded by California
March 16, 2026Third notice recorded by California; Old National Bank's notice to Indiana (672,075 total)
March 17, 2026Logged in Massachusetts (376 residents)

What information was involved?

Each letter fills in the reader's own items. The state records give the categories:

RegulatorInformation it records
Washington attorney generalName; Social Security number; financial and banking information; full date of birth
Texas attorney generalName; address; Social Security number; financial information; date of birth
Massachusetts consumer affairs officeSocial Security numbers and driver's licenses marked as breached; financial accounts, medical records and payment cards not

Marquis says it has no evidence that anyone's information has been misused.

How many people were affected?

RegulatorWhat it countsNumber
Indiana attorney generalOld National Bank notice, total affected672,075
Texas attorney generalTexans354,289
Indiana attorney generalOld National Bank notice, Indiana residents296,283
Washington attorney generalWashingtonians (multi-institution notice)269,773
Indiana attorney general1st MidAmerica Credit Union notice, total affected131,070
Indiana attorney general2025 Marquis notice, Indiana residents (no total given)34,805
Washington attorney generalWashingtonians (Industrial Credit Union of Whatcom County)24,526
Massachusetts consumer affairs officeMassachusetts residents376

Old National Bank's notice counts 296,283 Indiana residents, the second largest of the 1,361 notices sent in 2026 in Indiana's report (Indiana ranking).

No record gives a total for the whole incident. Old National's 672,075 is the 18th largest notice in Indiana's 2026 report, and it covers only one client.

The second largest client total is 1st MidAmerica Credit Union's 131,070, filed with Indiana on January 22, 2026 with the same August 14, 2025 breach date; Vermont's attorney general posted that letter under the credit union's name.

What is Marquis offering?

A complimentary membership in Epiq Privacy Solutions ID, for the number of months printed on each letter.

ItemDetail from the March 2026 letter
ProviderEpiq, Privacy Solutions ID
Enrollmentwww.privacysolutionsid.com, with the code on the letter
Marquis response line844-425-3645, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday to Friday
Epiq help866.675.2006, Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET

The guide to bank, brokerage and mortgage breach notices compares letters from other financial firms and their vendors.

What the documents leave open

  • How the third party got into Marquis's network.
  • The full list of client institutions, and the total number of people.
  • Why some clients' customers got letters months after others.

How this disclosure's timing compares

Marquis Software Solutions disclosed 110 days after the discovery date its notice gives. Across the 206 other state breach notices on cisonews.net that date discovery to the day, the median gap is 100 days.

California's breach-notice rule

California's breach law (Civil Code § 1798.82 for businesses, § 1798.29 for state agencies) requires any person or business that must notify more than 500 California residents of a single breach to submit one sample copy of that notice to the Attorney General electronically. The California Attorney General's breach list, where this notice was found, is built from those submissions. Source: California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Data Security Breach Reporting. The guide Data breach laws by state: notice deadlines and attorney general thresholds in 23 states reads the rule in full, and the glossary defines Breach notification law.

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Sources

  1. 2026-01-30 · AVermont Attorney General: 1st MidAmerica Credit Union Data Breach Notice to Consumers, published January 30, 2026
  2. 2025-12-02 · AMarquis Software Solutions, notice of data incident filed with the California Attorney General (December 2025), published December 2, 2025
  3. 2026-03-16 · AMarquis Software Solutions, example individual notice letter filed with the California Attorney General (March 2026), published March 16, 2026
  4. 2026-11-07 · ACalifornia Attorney General, list of submitted data security breach notices (search: Marquis), published November 7, 2026
  5. 2026-11-07 · ATexas Attorney General, data security breach reports, published November 7, 2026
  6. 2026-11-07 · AWashington State Office of the Attorney General, data breach notifications list, published November 7, 2026
  7. 2026-11-07 · AIndiana Attorney General, data breach year-to-date report (2025), published November 7, 2026
  8. 2026-11-07 · AIndiana Attorney General, data breach year-to-date report (2026), published November 7, 2026
  9. 2026-11-07 · AMassachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, 2026 Data Breach Notification Report, published November 7, 2026
  10. undated · ACalifornia Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Data Security Breach Reporting

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