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Lakewood Church

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 22, 2020

Filed

May 20, 2020

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Lakewood Church →

Lakewood Church notified the NH AG of a phishing incident on Jan 21, 2020, discovered Jan 22. One employee's email was compromised. 2 NH residents affected with names, DOB, and driver's license numbers. Notifications sent May 19, 2020, offering 1 year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 119 days

Jan 21, 2020

Begins

Jan 22, 2020

Discovered

May 20, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_d29e5a7890e6bfd72020-05-19 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_66192e66fc0e0f602020-05-27 · +7dVerified

Name: Lakewood Church
norm: lakewood church

Name: Lakewood Church
norm: lakewood church
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Jan 22, 2020
Breach occurred: Jan 21, 2020
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 19, 2020
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Launched an investigation
Work with outside computer forensic experts
Changed passwords one-day after discovery of the security event
Implementing enhanced data security measures with third party vendors
Offered free credit monitoring to individuals whose Social security numbers and/or driver’s license numbers may have been part of this incident
Offering you one (1) year of free credit monitoring and $1 million in identity theft insurance through Experian
Changes made: Implementing enhanced data security measures with third party vendors
Train our employees to recognize phishing scams to prevent something like this from happening in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(119 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Indiana State AGMay 19 · first

New Hampshire State AG+1d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+8d

Pattern: first filing May 19 (IN), last May 27 (MA) — a 8-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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/lakewood-church-20200520.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 20, 2020
Raw hash: 95c801e807cce5b04de530aff3b0ba164015d662478e22ab1f25cb528e3cefd1

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLakewood Church

Victim entityLakewood Church

Incidentdiscovered Jan 22, 2020

Stated responseLaunched an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov