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Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 20, 2021

Filed

Jul 21, 2021

To disclose

18 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. →

Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) experienced a ransomware attack starting March 20, 2021, where an unauthorized third party accessed and encrypted systems. The attacker potentially accessed PII including social security numbers, driver's license numbers, and credit card numbers of five New Hampshire residents. MCLE restored systems without paying ransom, engaged forensic experts, reset credentials, enabled MFA, and is offering 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 18 weeks / 123 days

Mar 20, 2021

Begins

Mar 20, 2021

Discovered

Jul 21, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_ae9e8d3d61811f522021-07-22 · +1dVerified
Maine State AGbd_3e3fa0a050fa22d02021-07-19 · +2dCandidate

Name: Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc.
norm: massachusetts continuing legal education
Domain: mcle.org

Name: Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc.
norm: massachusetts continuing legal education
Domain: mcle.org
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 20, 2021
Breach occurred: Mar 20, 2021
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 21, 2021
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified NH Department of Justice pursuant to NH Rev. Stat. § 359-C:20(1)(b)

During the incident: Secured the assistance of its legal team
Reported this wrongdoing to outside law enforcement using the Internet Crime Complaint Center
Retained forensic experts to regain access to MCLE’s servers, assess the scope of the hackers’ access to MCLE’s systems and data, and identify and implement remedial measures
Forensically assessed infected server restores
Reset admin and user passwords
Disabled some accounts
Monitored processes and services
Enabled multi-factor authentication
Commenced an exhaustive cybersecurity assessment
Changes made: Implementing additional security awareness training for staff
Installing an early warning detection and response system
Offering the affected individuals 24 months of identity-theft protection and credit monitoring through Experian free of charge
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 weeks(123 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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Maine State AGJul 19 · first

New Hampshire State AG+2d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+3d

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/massachusetts-continuing-legal-education-20210721.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 21, 2021
Raw hash: d7b3829efb3eea6d4b6687077ed53be79adbea23e7ab2a1f735d18bb709bc435

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMassachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc.

Victim entityMassachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 20, 2021

Stated responseSecured the assistance of its legal team

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov