HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDCriticalContained

ECMC GROUP, INC.

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

Mar 21, 2010

Filed

Mar 27, 2010

To disclose

6 days

Affected · nationwide

3,300,00010,823 in this filing

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for ECMC GROUP, INC. →

ECMC Group notified the NH AG of a data theft discovered March 21, 2010, affecting ~3.3M individuals. Stolen data included names, SSNs, addresses, and DOBs. No financial account numbers were compromised. Notices sent March 31, 2010. ECMC enhanced security and provided 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 days

Mar 21, 2010

Discovered

Mar 27, 2010

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_424c01a71e4327462010-03-29 · +2dVerified

Name: ECMC GROUP, INC.
norm: ecmc group

Name: ECMC GROUP, INC.
norm: ecmc group
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 21, 2010
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 31, 2010
Affected individuals: 3,300,000state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 ChannelT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: reported the data theft to local authoritiesfully cooperating with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies investigating the crime
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Arranged with Consumerinfo.com, Inc. an Experian company to provide you with up to 12 months of free Triple Alert coverage
Enhanced our electronic and physical security protocol
Received further recommendations from an external security partner that are being reviewed by our incident response team and we are enhancing both security protocols
Immediately reported the data theft to local authorities
Fully cooperating with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies investigating the crime
Changes made: Enhanced our electronic and physical security protocol
Enhancing both security protocols
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 days(6 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGMar 27 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+2d

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/ecmc-group-20100327.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 27, 2010
Raw hash: e5fa77cb7187553c8c6685a365bc6d4d6852493ee0bce430ae7c376b033baac4

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityECMC GROUP, INC.

Victim entityECMC GROUP, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 21, 2010

Stated responseArranged with Consumerinfo.com, Inc. an Experian company to provide you with up to 12 months of free Triple Alert coverage

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov