AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowResolved

State of New Hampshire, Department of Health and Human Services

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 20, 2025

Filed

Mar 3, 2025

To disclose

11 days

Affected

9state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for State of New Hampshire, Department of Health and Human Services →4 incidents on file

New Hampshire DHHS notified 9 individuals of a misdelivery of a spreadsheet containing personal identifying information. The error occurred when the Strafford County Employability Program sent a document to the Department, which was then inadvertently included with a payment receipt. The recipient returned the document.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 11 days

Feb 20, 2025

Discovered

Mar 3, 2025

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed9 affectedView incident

Name: State of New Hampshire, Department of Health and Human Services
norm: state of new hampshire department of health and human

Name: State of New Hampshire, Department of Health and Human Services
norm: state of new hampshire department of health and human
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Feb 20, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 27, 2025
Affected individuals: 9state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1535 Untrusted Internal Component
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: The Privacy Officer for the Department spoke with the individual on February 24, 2025, and requested that the individual return the document
Improved communication and a corrected process has been put in place between the Department and the Strafford County program
Changes made: Improved communication and a corrected process has been put in place between the Department and the Strafford County Employability Program to prevent this error from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 days(11 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/new-hampshire-department-health-human-services-20250303.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 3, 2025
Raw hash: df83ae2e5cf2cdd4ff3cce7694cd0d0407a1a86553fc83d8ad67e4a6a2b1bb83

Reporting entityState of New Hampshire, Department of Health and Human Services

Victim entityState of New Hampshire, Department of Health and Human Services

Incidentdiscovered Feb 20, 2025

Stated responseThe Privacy Officer for the Department spoke with the individual on February 24, 2025, and requested that the individual return the document

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov