AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Alfa Specialty Insurance Corporation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 4, 2015

Filed

Jul 10, 2015

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Confidence

66%

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Alfa Specialty Insurance Corporation and Alfa Vision Insurance Corporation notified the New Hampshire Attorney General on July 10, 2015, of a security incident discovered on May 4, 2015. A server in Brentwood, Tennessee inadvertently exposed personal information (names, addresses, DOBs, driver's licenses, SSNs) of 5 NH residents. Alfa secured the server, hired forensic experts, and offered 12 months of identity protection via AllClear ID.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 67 days

May 4, 2015

Discovered

Jul 10, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5 affectedView incident

Name: Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP
norm: wilson elser moskowitz edelman dicker
Domain: wilsonelser.com

Name: Alfa Specialty Insurance Corporation
norm: alfa specialty insurance
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 4, 2015
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 10, 2015
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Regulator citations: Notification is being provided to impacted individuals

During the incident: Secured the computer server
Began an investigation to determine what information was at risk
Hired independent forensic experts to assist with the investigation
Remove information cached on the internet
Evaluate its security measures
Offering potentially impacted individuals with identity protection services through AllClear ID
Notification is also being provided to the credit reporting agencies
Changes made: Evaluate its security measures in an effort to prevent this type of event from happening again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(67 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/alfa-insurance-20150710.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 10, 2015
Raw hash: ca592ced39973fafc7aac13bef8597f8b089eaa96f84daa6ff000d8e34d52cea

Reporting entityWilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP

Victim entityAlfa Specialty Insurance Corporation

Incidentdiscovered May 4, 2015

Stated responseSecured the computer server

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov