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Blue Beacon International

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 15, 2018

Filed

Apr 6, 2018

To disclose

22 days

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Blue Beacon International →2 incidents on file

Blue Beacon International notified the New Hampshire Attorney General that on March 15, 2018, unauthorized access to its employee portal occurred, potentially exposing SSNs and login credentials of employees. Approximately 4 NH residents were affected. Blue Beacon disabled the portal, notified the FBI and IRS, and is offering 12 months of credit monitoring via Experian.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 22 days

Mar 15, 2018

Discovered

Apr 6, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_c0308294debad44b2018-04-06Candidate
California State AGbd_f13efce6bc327e8e2018-04-06Verified

Name: Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, PLLC
norm: lewis brisbois bisgaard smith

Name: Blue Beacon International
norm: blue beacon
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Mar 15, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 6, 2018
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDCredentials
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of InvestigationNotified the Internal Revenue Service/Criminal Investigation unit (IRS/CI)
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Disabled the employee portal site
Launched an investigation
Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service/Criminal Investigation unit (IRS/CI)
Took additional measures to secure its systems and employee information
Providing twelve (12) months of complimentary credit and identity monitoring services to the affected residents through Experian
Changes made: Adding additional security features for the employee portal
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 days(22 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGApr 6 · first

California State AGApr 6 · first

New Hampshire State AGApr 6 · 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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/blue-beacon-20180406.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 6, 2018
Raw hash: 1277fecc6cc3a1a014534fbd4bf224f10e1d25f049e048062825c182bcb42003

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, PLLC

Victim entityBlue Beacon International

Incidentdiscovered Mar 15, 2018

Stated responseDisabled the employee portal site

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov