PhysicalEducationEducationTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

ETS

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 16, 2008

Filed

Jan 30, 2009

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for ETS →

ETS reported the theft of a laptop containing names and SSNs of 3 New Hampshire residents. The laptop was stolen from an employee's desk on Dec 15, 2008, and discovered missing on Dec 16. ETS notified the NH AG and affected individuals on Jan 30, 2009, offering credit monitoring and enhancing security measures.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 45 days

Dec 15, 2008

Begins

Dec 16, 2008

Discovered

Jan 30, 2009

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3 affectedView incident

Name: ETS
norm: ets
Domain: ets.org

Name: ETS
norm: ets
Domain: ets.org
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Dec 16, 2008
Breach occurred: Dec 15, 2008 – Dec 15, 2008
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 30, 2009
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General's Office

During the incident: Contacted local law enforcement authorities
Made efforts to recover the missing hardware
Changes made: Enhanced physical security measures at all offices
Deploying comprehensive military-grade encryption to all laptops
Enforced strong passwords which must be changed regularly for all computers
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(45 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/ets-20090129.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 30, 2009
Raw hash: a03849f3b3206645a1a035f516f4d580a54870c8d1fd770cdfa956f50d001a23

Reporting entityETS

Victim entityETS

Incidentdiscovered Dec 16, 2008

Stated responseContacted local law enforcement authorities

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov