UnknownTechnologyInformationGovernment IDFinancial accountMedium

AMERICAN ALARM & COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Feb 6, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

655state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for AMERICAN ALARM & COMMUNICATIONS, INC. →

American Alarm & Communications reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2024-02-06. 655 Massachusetts residents were affected.

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Massachusetts clock✓ MA credit monitoring due

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Feb 6, 2024

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_4a1074d6aa208cba2024-02-05 · +1dVerified
Maine State AGbd_70ae29a89c42fc732024-02-05 · +1dCandidate
Indiana State AGbd_ce449cf9dfe58be72024-02-01 · +5dVerified

Name: AMERICAN ALARM & COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
norm: american alarm communications

Name: AMERICAN ALARM & COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
norm: american alarm communications
Industry: Technologyregulator portal

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 655state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberFinancial account numberDriver's licence number
Stated not affected: Medical informationPayment card number
The filing states these were not involved. Categories absent from both lists were not addressed either way.
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: External

Compliance flags: MA credit monitoring due
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Indiana State AGFeb 1 · first

New Hampshire State AG+4d

Maine State AG+4d

Massachusetts State AG+5d · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 1 (IN), last Feb 6 (MA) — a 5-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://www.mass.gov/doc/data-breach-report-2024/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 6, 2024
Raw hash: 083aba7ef84c996ee14895018cbc17b3dde483d16361dba6229f4e8a05ae8118

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAMERICAN ALARM & COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

Victim entityAMERICAN ALARM & COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

IncidentUnknown

ComplianceMA credit monitoring due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov