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HackingProfessional ServicesCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDCriticalResolved

National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc.

bd_3b308b49ee1b5741 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Critical

Discovered

Sep 7, 2020

Filed

Jan 12, 2021

To disclose

18 weeks

Affected · nationwide

379,3982,410 in this filing

Linked

10 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc.

National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc. reported a data breach affecting 2,410 Maine residents. The breach, which occurred between August 31, 2020, and September 7, 2020, was an external system breach (hacking). The compromised information included names in combination with Social Security numbers. The breach was discovered between September 7, 2020, and December 28, 2020. Affected individuals were notified on January 12, 2021, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity restoration services through TransUnion.

Maine clockDiscovered Sep 7, 2020Filed with AG Jan 12, 2021127d ME AG >90d18 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 · 7 days
discovery → filing · 18 weeks / 127 days

Aug 31, 2020

Begins

Sep 7, 2020

Discovered

Jan 12, 2021

Filed

This filing is one of 10 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Show 5 more filingsup to 11d gap

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 10 states

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Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Jan 21 (NH) — a 20-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.