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New York Legal Assistance Group

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 11, 2020

Filed

Jan 19, 2021

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected · nationwide

21,3472 in this filing

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for New York Legal Assistance Group →2 incidents on file

New York Legal Assistance Group, a non-profit organization, reported a data breach affecting 21,347 individuals, including two residents of Maine. The breach was the result of a phishing email, which occurred between August 15, 2020, and September 24, 2020. The organization discovered the breach on December 11, 2020. The compromised information includes names in combination with financial account numbers or credit/debit card numbers. Affected individuals were notified on January 19, 2021, and offered 12 months of credit and identity monitoring services through TransUnion.

Maine clockDiscovered Dec 11, 2020 → Filed with AG Jan 19, 202139d ⏱ ME AG >30d6 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 118 days
discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 39 days

Aug 15, 2020

Begins

Dec 11, 2020

Discovered

Jan 19, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

13 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGJan 19 · first
Indiana State AGJan 19 · first
Massachusetts State AGJan 19 · first
Maine State AGJan 19 · 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.