Social EngineeringPhishingData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumContained
The Associated Press
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Full breach record for The Associated Press →Associated Press notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a security incident affecting two NH residents. Phishing emails directed customers to a fake AP Stylebook site, leading to unauthorized access to a legacy database between July 16-22, 2023. AP engaged forensic investigators, took the legacy site offline, reset passwords, and offered credit monitoring. Affected data included names, addresses, and potentially financial/identity info.
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_e36b897b0243f240Maine State AGfiled 2023-09-08Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/associated-press-20230908.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Sep 8, 2023
- Raw hash
- d901c3c635a0afe7fd2ce335b72892a1b2a15a20d689444f4e77ae48affae185
Reporting entity
- Name
- The Associated Pressnorm: the associated press
Victim entity
- Name
- The Associated Pressnorm: the associated press
Incident
- Discovered
- Jul 20, 2023
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Sep 1, 2023
- Affected individuals
- 2
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 7 weeks(50 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.