HackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Valley Hope

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 10, 2018

Filed

Jan 24, 2019

To disclose

15 weeks

Affected

25state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Valley Hope →2 incidents on file

Valley Hope Association notified NH AG of unauthorized access to an employee email account. Occurred Oct 9-10, 2018; discovered Oct 10, 2018. Affected 25 NH residents with names and SSNs. Response included forensic investigation, law enforcement notification, and 12 months credit monitoring via Kroll.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 15 weeks / 106 days

Oct 9, 2018

Begins

Oct 10, 2018

Discovered

Jan 24, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+4 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_53a502a1bd5d05a62019-01-18 · +6dVerified
Montana State AGbd_c0c256366a0db1672019-01-18 · +6dVerified
HHS OCRbd_f44d35e153ccc8d92019-01-18 · +6dVerified

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: Valley Hope
norm: valley hope
Domain: valleyhope.org
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Oct 10, 2018
Breach occurred: Oct 9, 2018 – Oct 10, 2018
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 18, 2019
Affected individuals: 25state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney GeneralNotifying other state regulatorsNotifying the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Commenced an investigation, which included working with outside forensic specialists
Contacted federal law enforcement authorities
Began mailing written notice of this incident to all affected individuals
Providing affected individuals access to twelve (12) months of credit monitoring and identity restoration services, through Kroll
Notifying other state regulators and the three major credit reporting agencies
Notifying the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Posting notice of this incident on its web site homepage
Changes made: Taking steps to implement additional safeguards
Review policies and procedures to further protect the security of information on our systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 weeks(106 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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Massachusetts State AGJan 18 · first

Montana State AGJan 18 · first

HHS OCRJan 18 · first

New Hampshire State AG+6d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 18 (MA), last Jan 24 (NH) — a 6-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/valley-hope-20190124.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 24, 2019
Raw hash: 33eafaf6a0e4e0b8542c1dd488c5611967a82441cdeba6b72a9b58b44d4d90d2

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityValley Hope

Incidentdiscovered Oct 10, 2018

Stated responseCommenced an investigation, which included working with outside forensic specialists

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov