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AccidentalMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 7, 2020

Filed

Jan 19, 2021

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected · nationwide

41 in this filing

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

75%
Full breach record for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts →

On December 7, 2020, The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts discovered that it had inadvertently disclosed the personal information of one Maine resident in October 2012. The compromised information included the individual's name and Social Security number. The organization notified the affected individual on January 15, 2021, and offered two years of identity theft protection services through Kroll.

Maine clockDiscovered Dec 7, 2020 → Filed with AG Jan 19, 202143d ⏱ 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 · 2989 days
discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 43 days

Oct 1, 2012

Begins

Dec 7, 2020

Discovered

Jan 19, 2021

Filed

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Maine State AGJan 19 · first · this page
Massachusetts State AG+1d

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.