PhysicalTechnologyInformationTheftEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

Gracenote

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 19, 2017

Filed

Jun 15, 2017

To disclose

27 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Gracenote →

Gracenote, a Nielsen subsidiary, reported the theft of an employee laptop in California on May 18, 2017. The laptop contained PII of current and former employees, including SSNs and compensation data. One New Hampshire resident was notified on June 20, 2017, and offered two years of credit monitoring via Kroll.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 27 days

May 18, 2017

Begins

May 19, 2017

Discovered

Jun 15, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_8220d30239098e572017-06-15Verified
Montana State AGbd_679b5ff07970d1242017-06-19 · +4dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_7f1f058bfa533bb52017-06-23 · +8dVerified

Name: NIELSEN COMPANY THE
norm: nielsen company the
Domain: nielsen.com

Name: Gracenote
norm: gracenote
Domain: gracenote.com
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: May 19, 2017
Breach occurred: May 18, 2017
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 20, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph A. Foster

During the incident: Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring
Notified the New Hampshire Attorney General
Notified the affected employee
Changes made: Offered two years of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services through Kroll
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 days(27 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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California State AGJun 15 · first

New Hampshire State AGJun 15 · first · this page

Montana State AG+4d

Oregon State AG+8d

Pattern: first filing Jun 15 (CA), last Jun 23 (OR) — a 8-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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/nielsen-20170615.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 15, 2017
Raw hash: 836219c3beeebe3ca859cc182a7cd70a920743f1b7ed0c37480383bb979a6f38

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNIELSEN COMPANY THE

Victim entityGracenote

Incidentdiscovered May 19, 2017

Stated responseSecured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov