AccidentalTechnologyInformationMisconfigurationEmployee Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

VALERITAS, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 16, 2014

Filed

Sep 23, 2014

To disclose

7 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for VALERITAS, INC. →

Valeritas notified NH AG of unauthorized access to HR folders containing employee PII (SSN, DOB, address) due to misconfigured security settings by IT partner Z-Tech. Discovered Sept 16, 2014. 1 NH resident affected. Remediation included security audits and offering 1-year LifeLock monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 62 days

discovery → filing · 7 days

Jul 16, 2014

Begins

Sep 16, 2014

Discovered

Sep 23, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

18 wks faster

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

Name: VALERITAS, INC.
norm: valeritas
Domain: valeritas.com

Name: VALERITAS, INC.
norm: valeritas
Domain: valeritas.com
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Sep 16, 2014
Breach occurred: Jul 16, 2014
Undetected for: 62 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 19, 2014
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Secured the files/folders
Began an investigation to determine how the security settings had been changed
Conducted searches of the network, email system and company-issued personal computers
Offered all employees free identity theft protection through Lifelock for one year
Provided instructions regarding how employees may place a security freeze on credit reports
Changes made: Properly implementing and testing the network access logging tools
Auditing all network security settings to ensure all sensitive information is available to only authorized users
Enhanced monitoring of network activity, security, and access
Revising and implementing, with our IT Partner, Z-Tech Associates, policies and practices to ensure access and security for files containing personal information is properly maintained
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 days(7 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/valeritas-20140923.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 23, 2014
Raw hash: 8ea9edf5d82769116df89cba58508f42e9508cf5716c018d003ef898bd7752e7

Reporting entityVALERITAS, INC.

Victim entityVALERITAS, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Sep 16, 2014

Stated responseSecured the files/folders

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov