AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

New Hampshire Office of Professional Licensure and Certification

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jun 14, 2016

Filed

Jul 11, 2016

To disclose

27 days

Affected

9state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for New Hampshire Office of Professional Licensure and Certification →

NH OPLC notified DOJ of a security breach where staff mistakenly marked confidential licensee documents as public in the online licensing database. The error occurred between May 23 and June 14, 2016, affecting 9 licensees. OPLC discovered the breach on June 14, 2016, and DoIT corrected the settings to remove public access.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 22 days

discovery → filing · 27 days

May 23, 2016

Begins

Jun 14, 2016

Discovered

Jul 11, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed9 affectedView incident

Name: New Hampshire Office of Professional Licensure and Certification
norm: new hampshire office of professional licensure and certification

Name: New Hampshire Office of Professional Licensure and Certification
norm: new hampshire office of professional licensure and certification
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Jun 14, 2016
Breach occurred: May 23, 2016 – Jun 14, 2016
Undetected for: 22 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 11, 2016
Affected individuals: 9state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Regulator citations: Notified the New Hampshire Department of Justice

During the incident: Contacted DoIT and ensured that the documents were no longer listed as public
Worked with DoIT to determine exactly which documents had been accessed
Reviewed all the documents to determine whether they contained confidential information
Changes made: DoIT has corrected all the data problems so these confidential documents are no longer publicly available
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 days(27 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/office-rofessional-licensure-20160711.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 11, 2016
Raw hash: e32d14c73eca6e2571ebf07984e947888ef6acd6939bc136a3ae601f595d968d

Reporting entityNew Hampshire Office of Professional Licensure and Certification

Victim entityNew Hampshire Office of Professional Licensure and Certification

Incidentdiscovered Jun 14, 2016

Stated responseContacted DoIT and ensured that the documents were no longer listed as public

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov