MalwareRansomwareCapture Stored DataData EncryptedData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

ALE Solutions, Inc.

bd_38671801fc793c86 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 18, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

71%

Full breach record for ALE Solutions, Inc. →2 incidents on file

ALE Solutions, Inc. suffered a data encryption incident by an unknown external actor. Unauthorized parties may have accessed or downloaded data between April and June 2020. Affected information includes names and Social Security numbers. The investigation was completed on December 16, 2020. Remediation included advanced threat detection, hardened network administration, and multifactor authentication.

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Incident timeline

Apr 1, 2020

Begins

Jan 18, 2021

Filed

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_8960a8bc919162fd2021-01-18Verified
Oregon State AGbd_a2e38011a1d73a052021-01-19 · +1dVerified by operator
New Hampshire State AGbd_f95391123390dc922021-01-19 · +1dVerified
Maine State AGbd_fcecc142923d79472021-01-19 · +1dVerified

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Indiana State AGbd_94fb9b704ac16ee22021-01-11 · +7dVerified
Washington State AGbd_be04a58695a2ade52021-01-11 · +7dVerified by operator
Montana State AGbd_e462e10ef60d89992021-01-08 · +10dCandidate
Illinois State AGbd_9dfdd5a549bdc6502021-01-01 · +17dVerified

Name: ALE Solutions, Inc.
norm: ale solutions

Name: ALE Solutions, Inc.
norm: ale solutions

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Apr 1, 2020 – Jun 30, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1119 Automated CollectionT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Took immediate steps to secure our environment
Launched an investigation with the assistance of leading independent digital forensics and cybersecurity experts
Completed a thorough review of the potentially affected data
Gathered contact information needed to notify all potentially affected individuals
Offering a one-year membership to TransUnion Interactive's myTrueIdentity credit monitoring and identity restoration service at no cost
Changes made: Deployment of an advanced threat detection tool with twenty-four hour active monitoring by a cybersecurity operations team
Implementing hardened procedures for network administration
Implementing multifactor user authentication
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 9 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

Montana State AG+7d

Indiana State AG+10d

Washington State AG+10d

Massachusetts State AG+17d

California State AG+17d · this page

Oregon State AG+18d

New Hampshire State AG+18d

Maine State AG+18d

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Jan 19 (ME) — a 18-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-500213
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 18, 2021
Raw hash: 8299b48df8e6ab97cd30967f06ca6945f18dbb28d0fd60fec778253617d8c2d4

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityALE Solutions, Inc.

Victim entityALE Solutions, Inc.

IncidentRansomware

Stated responseTook immediate steps to secure our environment

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov