AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisdeliverySupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Massachusetts Department Of Transportation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 17, 2019

Filed

Jun 17, 2019

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

152state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Massachusetts Department Of Transportation →11 incidents on file

MassDOT (MA Registry of Motor Vehicles) notified NH AG of a vendor error where Fast Enterprises, LLC inadvertently disclosed customers' names and professional license numbers to incorrect recipients during a web service upgrade. 152 NH residents affected. No SSN or financial data exposed. Incident discovered April 17, 2019. MassDOT offered free replacement licenses.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 6 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 61 days

Apr 11, 2019

Begins

Apr 17, 2019

Discovered

Jun 17, 2019

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed152 affectedView incident

Name: Massachusetts Department Of Transportation
norm: massachusetts department of transportation
Domain: mass.gov

Name: Massachusetts Department Of Transportation
norm: massachusetts department of transportation
Domain: mass.gov
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Apr 17, 2019
Breach occurred: Apr 11, 2019 – Apr 17, 2019
Undetected for: 6 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 28, 2019
Affected individuals: 152state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1074 Data Staged
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: MassDOT and Fast immediately commenced an investigation
Closed the system down to prevent any additional emails from being sent out
Fast completed the repairs, testing and verification on April 17, 2019
Taken steps to ensure that there is additional verification of all attachments
Running database traces to ensure that the attachments are beings sourced from the correct table
Changes made: Taken steps to ensure that there is additional verification of all attachments
Running database traces to ensure that the attachments are beings sourced from the correct table
Offering all affected individuals with active professional license numbers the option to obtain a free replacement professional license with a new state assigned (SA) number
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(61 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/massdot-20190617.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 17, 2019
Raw hash: a64b82788e3e35ab607727db05474072b8f5f17527e2ced270701f7f2f9ef97f

Reporting entityMassachusetts Department Of Transportation

Victim entityMassachusetts Department Of Transportation

Incidentdiscovered Apr 17, 2019

Stated responseMassDOT and Fast immediately commenced an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov