AccidentalProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesMisconfigurationData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumContained

Employer Leasing Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 17, 2017

Filed

Jan 18, 2018

To disclose

13 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Employer Leasing Company →

Employer Leasing Company notified the NH AG that files containing PII (names, SSNs, DLs, health info) were accessible via Google search between Sept 14-18, 2017. Discovered Oct 17, 2017. 1 NH resident affected. Remediation included forensic investigation, file removal from Google, and 1 year credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 33 days

discovery → filing · 13 weeks / 93 days

Sep 14, 2017

Begins

Oct 17, 2017

Discovered

Jan 18, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_31cdf47ba61c240c2018-01-18Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_bdfbb1e6dc7ba8752018-01-18Verified
California State AGbd_c00a5ba7b0b767212018-01-18Verified

Name: Employer Leasing Company
norm: employer leasing

Name: Employer Leasing Company
norm: employer leasing
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 17, 2017
Breach occurred: Sep 14, 2017 – Sep 18, 2017
Undetected for: 33 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 16, 2018
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Launched an investigation to determine which files were browsed
Took steps to investigate and mitigate the impact of this incident, with the assistance of a third-party forensic investigation firm
Took steps to remove the sensitive files from Google through the use of Google’s online content removal forms and through direct communication to Google
Engagement of a vendor to provide advanced address look-up services
Established a dedicated hotline for potentially affected individuals
Providing all potentially affected individuals access to one (1) free year of credit and identity monitoring services, including identity restoration services, through IDExperts
Changes made: Provided guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Providing potentially impacted individuals with information on how to place a fraud alert and security freeze on one's credit file
Providing information on protecting against tax fraud
Providing contact details for the national consumer reporting agencies
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 weeks(93 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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Montana State AGJan 18 · first

Massachusetts State AGJan 18 · first

California State AGJan 18 · first

New Hampshire State AGJan 18 · first · this page

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/employer-leasing-20180118.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 18, 2018
Raw hash: e1fafa43efc86e3b42d062002b21f52d854797b11492d5f170047cd3d5829291

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityEmployer Leasing Company

Victim entityEmployer Leasing Company

Incidentdiscovered Oct 17, 2017

Stated responseLaunched an investigation to determine which files were browsed

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov