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UIL Holdings Corporation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 18, 2014

Filed

Sep 29, 2014

To disclose

11 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for UIL Holdings Corporation3 incidents on file

UIL Holdings Corporation notified individuals that a laptop containing personal information (names, SSNs, addresses, earnings data, DOBs) was stolen from a vendor on September 13, 2014. The theft was reported to police on September 18, 2014. No evidence of fraudulent use was found. UIL provided 24 months of identity protection via AllClear ID.

Incident timeline

undetected · 5 days
discovery → filing · 11 days

Sep 13, 2014

Begins

Sep 18, 2014

Discovered

Sep 29, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

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

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.