MalwareEnergy & UtilitiesUtilitiesRansomwareData EncryptedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIMediumContained

SANTA ENERGY CORPORATION

bd_031cb318aae9066c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 22, 2020

Filed

Aug 17, 2020

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for SANTA ENERGY CORPORATION →2 incidents on file

Santa Energy Corporation notified one New Hampshire resident of a ransomware incident. Files were encrypted June 16-22, 2020. No evidence of data access was found. The company engaged forensic investigators, restored backups, and provided 24 months of identity monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 6 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 56 days

Jun 16, 2020

Begins

Jun 22, 2020

Discovered

Aug 17, 2020

Filed

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

Name: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
norm: nelson mullins riley scarborough

Name: SANTA ENERGY CORPORATION
norm: santa energy
Industry: Energy & Utilitiesllm

Discovered: Jun 22, 2020
Breach occurred: Jun 16, 2020 – Jun 22, 2020
Undetected for: 6 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 14, 2020
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Voluntary Notice of Data Security Incident filed with New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Engaged an industry-leading forensic investigation firm
Restored encrypted files from network backups
Sent voluntary notice to affected resident
Offered twenty-four (24) months of identity monitoring without cost
Changes made: Implemented additional technical security measures designed to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(56 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/santa-energy-20200817.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 17, 2020
Raw hash: b42bff5e955124569a45fbc87f5172bca16c6129d85576492e380dd8dedd0db2

Reporting entityNelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Victim entitySANTA ENERGY CORPORATION

Incidentdiscovered Jun 22, 2020

Stated responseEngaged an industry-leading forensic investigation firm

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov