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

The Educational Employees' Supplementary Retirement System of Fairfax County

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 7, 2018

Filed

Jun 12, 2018

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for The Educational Employees' Supplementary Retirement System of Fairfax County →

ERFC, a retirement system for Fairfax County educational employees, notified the NH AG of a data security incident where a third-party mail house (Master Print/Fulfillment Solutions) incorrectly printed Social Security numbers on mailing labels for Spring 2018 newsletters. ERFC discovered the error on May 7, 2018, after a recipient alerted them. The incident affected 5 New Hampshire residents. ERFC notified individuals on June 20, 2018, offered one year of credit monitoring, and implemented internal procedural safeguards.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 36 days

May 7, 2018

Discovered

Jun 12, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_79e056d2e36d7b022018-06-13 · +1dVerified

Name: The Educational Employees' Supplementary Retirement System of Fairfax County
norm: the educational employees supplementary retirement system of fairfax county
Domain: fcps.edu/erfc

Name: The Educational Employees' Supplementary Retirement System of Fairfax County
norm: the educational employees supplementary retirement system of fairfax county
Domain: fcps.edu/erfc
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 7, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 20, 2018
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General

During the incident: Convened a meeting of the retirement staff to alert them to the Security Incident and discuss next steps
Confirmed that Master Print destroyed any documents containing social security numbers
Notified its insurance carrier
Retained counsel in order to assess its obligations as a result of the security incident
Notified the affected individuals on June 20, 2018
Provided them with monitoring since June 20, 2018
Provided proper notification in writing
Changes made: Increased identification procedures for retirees who contact ERFC
Flagged affected retiree accounts internally
Escalated calls, mail or email requests to change a retiree address or direct deposit information to management for approval
IT Department monitoring new ERFCDirect accounts opened by affected retirees
Purged all ERFC incident-related documents and internal/external emails
Confirmed destruction of data, mailing files, and emails by Master Print and Fulfillment Solutions
Offering a complimentary one-year membership in Experian ' s Credit I-Bureau
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(36 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGJun 12 · first · this page

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Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

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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/educational-employees-20180612.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 12, 2018
Raw hash: d4e60205dad2a2b37d9ec498f5fba026ecaed54c2593256c8c9d356f3e25a9ad

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThe Educational Employees' Supplementary Retirement System of Fairfax County

Victim entityThe Educational Employees' Supplementary Retirement System of Fairfax County

Incidentdiscovered May 7, 2018

Stated responseConvened a meeting of the retirement staff to alert them to the Security Incident and discuss next steps

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov