AccidentalOtherMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumResolved

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 26, 2012

Filed

Aug 23, 2012

To disclose

28 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation notified NH AG of a data security incident on Aug 23, 2012. On July 26, 2012, an employee inadvertently attached a spreadsheet containing vendor PII (name, address, phone, SSN, payment history) to emails sent to a small number of vendors. One NH resident was affected. Foundation provided 12 months credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 28 days

Jul 26, 2012

Begins

Jul 26, 2012

Discovered

Aug 23, 2012

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

Name: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
norm: bill melinda gates

Name: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
norm: bill melinda gates
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Jul 26, 2012
Breach occurred: Jul 26, 2012
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 23, 2012
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1535 Untrusted Email
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General pursuant to New Hampshire Code Section 359-C:20 I (b)
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Contacted each of the vendors that received the information
Providing 12 months of credit monitoring and resolution services at our cost
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 28 days(28 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/bill-melinda-gates-20120823.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 23, 2012
Raw hash: c8dc73553e3bfebd6885f155f53884557eb8433755dfe4b63e581ea1dd6394c9

Reporting entityBill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Victim entityBill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Incidentdiscovered Jul 26, 2012

Stated responseContacted each of the vendors that received the information

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov