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HackingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

The Richards Group

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 24, 2020

Filed

Feb 17, 2021

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected · nationwide

25,17948 in this filing

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for The Richards Group3 incidents on file

The Richards Group, a commercial entity, experienced an external system breach (hacking) on May 1, 2020. The breach was discovered on November 24, 2020, and affected 48 Maine residents. The compromised information included names and financial account or credit/debit card numbers. In response, The Richards Group began notifying affected individuals on January 20, 2021, and offered 12 months of identity theft protection services through Experian.

Maine clockDiscovered Nov 24, 2020Filed with AG Feb 17, 202185d ME AG >30d12 weeks discovery → filing
unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 207 days
discovery → filing · 12 weeks / 85 days

May 1, 2020

Begins

Nov 24, 2020

Discovered

Feb 17, 2021

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
HHS OCRJan 28 · first
Maine State AG+20d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 28 (VT), last Feb 17 (ME) — a 20-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.