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HackingSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsMedium

THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 21, 2020

Filed

Sep 18, 2020

To disclose

28 days

Affected · nationwide

1,5344 in this filing

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY3 incidents on file

The New-York Historical Society, a non-profit organization, reported a security breach affecting 1,534 individuals, including 4 Maine residents. The breach, which occurred on May 20, 2020, and was discovered on August 21, 2020, was attributed to an event at a third-party provider. The compromised information included names combined with financial account numbers or credit/debit card numbers along with their security codes, access codes, passwords, or PINs. Consumers were notified in writing on September 18, 2020. Identity theft protection services were not offered.

Maine clockDiscovered Aug 21, 2020Filed with AG Sep 18, 202028d ME AG ≤30d28 days 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 · 93 days
discovery → filing · 28 days

May 20, 2020

Begins

Aug 21, 2020

Discovered

Sep 18, 2020

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Indiana State AGSep 18 · first
Maine State AGSep 18 · first · 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.