PhysicalEnergy & UtilitiesUtilitiesTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

PSEG

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 25, 2011

Filed

Oct 10, 2011

To disclose

15 days

Affected

3state residents only

Confidence

66%

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PSEG reported the theft of a laptop from an employee's home on September 25, 2011. The laptop potentially contained names and SSNs of PSEG employees. 3 New Hampshire residents were notified on October 10, 2011. PSEG offered credit monitoring and identity theft insurance.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 15 days

Sep 25, 2011

Begins

Sep 25, 2011

Discovered

Oct 10, 2011

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3 affectedView incident

Name: PSEG
norm: pseg

Name: PSEG
norm: pseg
Industry: Energy & Utilitiesllm

Discovered: Sep 25, 2011
Breach occurred: Sep 25, 2011
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 10, 2011
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Pursuant to N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 359-C:20

During the incident: The employee whose computer was stolen immediately alerted law enforcement
PSEG’s Business Assurance and Resilience unit alerted law enforcement
PSEG promptly began investigating it
PSEG has issued notice to affected employees
Arranging for free credit monitoring
Providing tips on how to protect themselves from identity theft
Changes made: Offering 12 months of credit monitoring and identity theft insurance
Active PSEG employees can also view information about data security on a newly launched intranet site
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 days(15 days from discovery to filing)
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/pseg-20111010.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 10, 2011
Raw hash: 453cf267bf17da1145620b9818d222cbf6d9bc8f5c5b8658661a186e16953708

Reporting entityPSEG

Victim entityPSEG

Incidentdiscovered Sep 25, 2011

Stated responseThe employee whose computer was stolen immediately alerted law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov