PhysicalProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

A.W. Hastings & Co., LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 12, 2011

Filed

Dec 8, 2011

To disclose

26 days

Affected

3state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for A.W. Hastings & Co., LLC →

ADP reported the theft of an encrypted laptop containing PII (names, addresses, SSNs) of 3 A.W. Hastings & Co., LLC employees in New Hampshire. Incident occurred Nov 12, 2011. ADP notified law enforcement and provided credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 26 days

Nov 12, 2011

Begins

Nov 12, 2011

Discovered

Dec 8, 2011

Filed

vs. sector median

14 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3 affectedView incident

Name: Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
norm: automatic data processing
Domain: adp.com

Name: A.W. Hastings & Co., LLC
norm: aw hastings
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 12, 2011
Breach occurred: Nov 12, 2011
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Took immediate action to investigate what happened
Assisting law enforcement in its investigation of this crime
Providing each affected individual with credit monitoring and identity theft protection insurance
Changes made: Offering credit monitoring and identity theft protection insurance through Equifax
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 days(26 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/aw-hastings-20111208.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 8, 2011
Raw hash: 5ff7fcb195245ba5e7a882b5c3f20f1a96afe81552d8a162ad4873f4389d0257

Reporting entityAutomatic Data Processing, Inc.

Victim entityA.W. Hastings & Co., LLC

Incidentdiscovered Nov 12, 2011

Stated responseTook immediate action to investigate what happened

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov