HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

National Credit Adjusters

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 1, 2014

Filed

Jun 5, 2014

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

42state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for National Credit Adjusters →

National Credit Adjusters, LLC notified the NH Attorney General that unauthorized third-party debt collectors accessed customer data including names, addresses, debt balances, DOBs, and SSNs. Incident discovered in March 2014. 42 NH residents affected. Investigation ongoing.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 96 days

Mar 1, 2014

Discovered

Jun 5, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

+5 wks slower

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_a9d538d6caa374612014-06-04 · +1dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_478c9ff1a293808f2014-06-09 · +4dVerified

Name: National Credit Adjusters
norm: national credit adjusters
Domain: payncaks.virtualcollector.net

Name: National Credit Adjusters
norm: national credit adjusters
Domain: payncaks.virtualcollector.net
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 1, 2014
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 5, 2014
Affected individuals: 42state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Conducted an investigation to establish the facts surrounding this incident
Notified law enforcement authorities
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 weeks(96 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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California State AGJun 4 · first

New Hampshire State AG+1d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Jun 4 (CA), last Jun 9 (MA) — a 5-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/national-credit-adjusters-20140605.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 5, 2014
Raw hash: e39baa0a379194bad99c75a00a9ec91a15b1edeb0c38050322e5fa39c6f13be7

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNational Credit Adjusters

Victim entityNational Credit Adjusters

Incidentdiscovered Mar 1, 2014

Stated responseConducted an investigation to establish the facts surrounding this incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov