AccidentalProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Squire Patton Boggs

bd_248e7dfe55e7aa91 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 7, 2018

Filed

Mar 26, 2018

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Squire Patton Boggs →

Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP notified the NH AG of a misdelivery incident in Jan 2018 where one individual's Form 1099 was mistakenly included in another recipient's envelope. The firm discovered the error on Feb 7, 2018, after a vendor alerted them. One NH resident was potentially impacted. The firm resent all 1099s and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 7 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 47 days

Jan 31, 2018

Begins

Feb 7, 2018

Discovered

Mar 26, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

11 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_d252b310d325c69b2018-03-23 · +3dVerified

Name: Squire Patton Boggs
norm: squire patton boggs
Domain: squirepattonboggs.com
Industry: professional_services

Name: Squire Patton Boggs
norm: squire patton boggs
Domain: squirepattonboggs.com
Industry: professional_services
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 7, 2018
Breach occurred: Jan 31, 2018
Undetected for: 7 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 15, 2018
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Resent all individual Form 1099s
Sent letters to all potentially affected individuals across the U.S.
Offered credit monitoring and identity theft protection for a year
Changes made: Taking steps to prevent a similar occurrence
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(47 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 AGMar 23 · first

New Hampshire State AG+3d · 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/squire-patton-20180326.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 26, 2018
Raw hash: e6b4e02e32abfbc6d1918cb1feb7e0b16bce2d2cfdde5d9ff252db6ebbb20b13

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySquire Patton Boggs

Victim entitySquire Patton Boggs

Incidentdiscovered Feb 7, 2018

Stated responseResent all individual Form 1099s

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov