HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)MediumContained

HC Financial Advisors, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 2, 2018

Filed

Nov 5, 2018

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected · nationwide

1071 in this filing

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for HC Financial Advisors, Inc. →

HC Financial Advisors, Inc. notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to an MS Office 365 mailbox. The breach affected 107 individuals, exposing government-issued IDs (SSNs, passports, driver's licenses). The attacker's identity is unknown, but access was terminated by an IT consultant. Notifications were sent to affected individuals, offering 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 95 days

Aug 2, 2018

Discovered

Nov 5, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+5 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed107 affectedView incident

Name: Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP
norm: gordon rees scully mansukhani
Domain: grsm.com

Name: HC Financial Advisors, Inc.
norm: hc financial advisors
Domain: hcfinanical.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 2, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 9, 2018
Affected individuals: 107state + nationwide
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1114 Email CollectionT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notification of Data Security Incident to New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Requested that its IT consultant evaluate these irregularities
Consultant immediately terminated the unauthorized access and confirmed that the network was secure
Undertook further investigative efforts to identify any specific individuals whose personal information may have been compromised
Full and time consuming analysis of the impacted mailbox was performed
Providing written notification on November 9, 2018 to 107 individuals
Offer to provide twenty-four months of three bureau credit monitoring services
Changes made: Working closely with leading security experts to identity and implement measures to further strengthen the security of its system
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 weeks(95 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/hc-financial-advisors-20181106.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 5, 2018
Raw hash: 563369270801474e225b772041973269021a02e783e8b4dbe2b04841510dab3e

Reporting entityGordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP

Victim entityHC Financial Advisors, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 2, 2018

Stated responseRequested that its IT consultant evaluate these irregularities

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov