HackingIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

GCF Valuation, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 16, 2021

Filed

May 11, 2022

To disclose

30 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

67%

GCF Valuation, Inc. notified the New Hampshire Attorney General on May 11, 2022, that unauthorized access to its network on October 16, 2021, may have exposed the name and Social Security number of one New Hampshire resident. GCF engaged forensic experts, reported the incident to the FBI, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring to the affected individual.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 30 weeks / 207 days

Oct 16, 2021

Discovered

May 11, 2022

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, PLLC
norm: lewis brisbois bisgaard smith

Name: GCF Valuation, Inc.
norm: gcf valuation
Domain: peercomps.gvalue.com

Discovered: Oct 16, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 11, 2022
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Engaged a team of cybersecurity experts to secure its digital environment and conduct a forensic investigation
Enlisted additional independent experts to review accessed data for the existence of personal information
Reported this incident to the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Offering 12 months of credit monitoring and identity protection services to affected individuals
Changes made: Taken measures to enhance the security of its network to minimize the likelihood that an event like this might occur again in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 30 weeks(207 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/gcf-valuation-20220511.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 11, 2022
Raw hash: ac295a27a43a0b3d64132dabaa209e002f7187a7cf616a5831dc80e0becdd8bf

Reporting entityLewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, PLLC

Victim entityGCF Valuation, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 16, 2021

Stated responseEngaged a team of cybersecurity experts to secure its digital environment and conduct a forensic investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov