PhysicalFinancial ServicesFinanceTheftCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

MEBA Benefit Plans

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 18, 2018

Filed

Jul 27, 2018

To disclose

9 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for MEBA Benefit Plans →

MEBA Benefit Plans notified the NH Attorney General that a hard copy report containing personal information (names, addresses, SSNs, vacation pay amounts) of Patriot Contract Services employees was stolen from the mail. The theft was discovered on July 18, 2018, when a Sheriff in California apprehended an individual in possession of the report. MEBA sent notifications to affected individuals and offered credit monitoring. Remediation includes switching to encrypted email transmission for reports.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 days

Jul 18, 2018

Discovered

Jul 27, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_fe4b6b497e4f955d2018-07-27Verified

Name: MEBA Benefit Plans
norm: meba benefit plans
Domain: mebaplans.org

Name: MEBA Benefit Plans
norm: meba benefit plans
Domain: mebaplans.org
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 18, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 24, 2018
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified State of New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Third party: via Patriot Contract Services, LLC

During the incident: Sent notification letters to affected individuals
Offering and paying for a one-year subscription to AllClear ID's identity theft and credit monitoring services
Working with Patriot to determine what happened
Arranged with AllClear Fraud Alerts with Credit Monitoring to provide a two-year subscription for credit monitoring and identity theft protection services
Changes made: Transmit the report to Patriot only by encrypted email and not in paper form via US Mail
Exploring with Patriot ways to remove personally identifiable information from the report
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 days(9 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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Massachusetts State AGJul 27 · first

New Hampshire State AGJul 27 · first · this page

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/meba-benefits-20180727.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 27, 2018
Raw hash: 50e20cbd475e4926bd28e537743ca9ec37b18d7c173fdc24ea1069d0dadab043

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMEBA Benefit Plans

Victim entityMEBA Benefit Plans

Incidentdiscovered Jul 18, 2018

Stated responseSent notification letters to affected individuals

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov