HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

McAvinney Employee Benefit Services LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 28, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

McAvinney Employee Benefit Services LLC notified the NH AG of a data incident on Feb 28, 2019. Unauthorized access occurred around Feb 6, 2019, via stolen employee credentials to a third-party cloud backup site. One NH resident's PII (name, SSN, email, address) was potentially accessed. Notices mailed Feb 27, 2019.

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Incident timeline

Feb 6, 2019

Begins

Feb 28, 2019

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Hirschler Fleischer
norm: hirschler fleischer

Name: McAvinney Employee Benefit Services LLC
norm: mcavinney employee benefit services
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Feb 6, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 27, 2019
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Changed all its employees’ passwords for all services that McAvinney uses on a routine basis
Implementing additional internal controls and safeguards designed to prevent a recurrence of such an attack, and to protect the privacy of personal information
Offering affected residents one year of complimentary identity theft protection services through Identity Force
Changes made: Implementing additional internal controls and safeguards designed to prevent a recurrence of such an attack, and to protect the privacy of personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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/mcavinney-employee-20190228.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 28, 2019
Raw hash: 06a5c83949a16a4e849b3ce4db120c74a4d8abe4942e45c45393a3bee5cc9b2c

Reporting entityHirschler Fleischer

Victim entityMcAvinney Employee Benefit Services LLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseChanged all its employees’ passwords for all services that McAvinney uses on a routine basis

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov