HackingTechnologyProfessional ServicesInformationStolen CredentialsData MishandlingData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Comnet Marketing Group

bd_2974e232afbd8113 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jun 23, 2016

Filed

Jul 11, 2016

To disclose

18 days

Affected

8state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Comnet Marketing Group →

Comnet Marketing Group, Inc., a vendor for AAAS, experienced unauthorized access to its systems on April 24, 2016. The attacker deleted data collected from AAAS members between April 2015 and January 2016, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and payment card info. While no evidence of acquisition was found, 8 NH residents were notified on July 8, 2016, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 60 days

discovery → filing · 18 days

Apr 24, 2016

Begins

Jun 23, 2016

Discovered

Jul 11, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

16 wks faster

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

Montana State AGbd_efbb5db7f29dd87a2016-07-12 · +1dCandidate
Oregon State AGbd_13cff995d5adaae52016-07-22 · +11dVerified

Name: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
norm: american association for the advancement of science

Name: Comnet Marketing Group
norm: comnet marketing
Industry: TechnologyllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jun 23, 2016
Breach occurred: Apr 24, 2016
Undetected for: 60 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 8, 2016
Affected individuals: 8state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1485 Data Destroyed
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Terminated its relationship with Comnet
Mailed notification to affected New Hampshire residents
Offered affected individuals the option to obtain independent credit monitoring services for 12 months at no cost
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 days(18 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGJul 11 · first · this page

Montana State AG+1d

Oregon State AG+11d

Pattern: first filing Jul 11 (NH), last Jul 22 (OR) — a 11-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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/comnet-marketing-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: f7dad0fd8fde3582ec37a8d32f357ceed1cb9646d19e88f4ca9fe4244a1143b2

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

Victim entityComnet Marketing Group

Incidentdiscovered Jun 23, 2016

Stated responseTerminated its relationship with Comnet

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov