AccidentalTelecom & MediaInformationMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Prime Communications, L.P.

bd_245aa01854ebbff2 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 27, 2020

Filed

May 22, 2020

To disclose

25 days

Affected

64state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Prime Communications, L.P. →

Prime Communications notified the NH AG of a data event affecting 64 NH residents. On Dec 11, 2019, a file containing employee PII (name, SSN, DOB) was inadvertently emailed to a former employee. Prime discovered the incident on April 27, 2020. Notices were sent May 18, 2020, offering 12 months of credit monitoring via Kroll.

J jump to incidentP pin to compareR raw source

Incident timeline

undetected · 138 days

discovery → filing · 25 days

Dec 11, 2019

Begins

Apr 27, 2020

Discovered

May 22, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_43ae4ea2e6a60ba62020-05-18 · +4dCandidate
Indiana State AGbd_5d12c2c8b8ffaf652020-05-18 · +4dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_67c005657b48e05f2020-05-18 · +4dVerified
California State AGbd_c5f3ea479d1a39cb2020-05-18 · +4dVerified

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: Prime Communications, L.P.
norm: prime communications
Industry: Telecom & Mediallm

Discovered: Apr 27, 2020
Breach occurred: Dec 11, 2019
Undetected for: 138 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 18, 2020
Affected individuals: 64state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 Phishing
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Began investigating to understand what happened and the scope of potentially affected information
Providing written notice of this incident to individuals
Providing potentially impacted New Hampshire residents with complimentary access to credit monitoring and identity restoration services for twelve (12) months through Kroll
Reviewing its existing policies and procedures and implementing enhanced employee training protocols
Changes made: Reviewing its existing policies and procedures
Implementing enhanced employee training protocols
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 25 days(25 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Montana State AGMay 18 · first

Indiana State AGMay 18 · first

Massachusetts State AGMay 18 · first

California State AGMay 18 · first

New Hampshire State AG+4d · 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/prime-communications-20200522.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 22, 2020
Raw hash: 71ee6e3ed8fe2fad8688a0481b41ab042d0213b5e186c8605d2b34abdbf96800

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityPrime Communications, L.P.

Incidentdiscovered Apr 27, 2020

Stated responseBegan investigating to understand what happened and the scope of potentially affected information

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov