AccidentalMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPIIIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHighContained
Birch Communications, Inc.
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Full breach record for Birch Communications, Inc. →Birch Communications notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a data incident on August 25, 2016. On August 4, 2016, an employee inadvertently emailed a file containing names and Social Security numbers of current and former employees to a former employee. The company determined 1,913 individuals were affected (4 NH residents). The former employee deleted the data, and the company forensically confirmed deletion. Remediation included 12 months of credit monitoring and policy reviews.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,913 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/birch-communications-20160825.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Aug 25, 2016
- Raw hash
- c8d698a739bc0d0603a6a734045960bbded62b45e8c203d9de866304dc4ba845
Reporting entity
- Name
- Birch Communications, Inc.norm: birch communications
Victim entity
- Name
- Birch Communications, Inc.norm: birch communications
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 4, 2016
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,913
- Data types
- PIIIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unknown
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- Threat actor
- Internal
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 21 days(21 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.