HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 2, 2017

Filed

Apr 30, 2018

To disclose

30 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION →

National Restaurant Association notified NH AG of unauthorized access to employee email accounts starting Oct 2, 2017. Incident involved 5 NH residents. Data accessed included names and SSNs. Response included forensic investigation, credit monitoring, and notifications.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 30 weeks / 210 days

Oct 2, 2017

Discovered

Apr 30, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+16 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

Massachusetts State AGbd_d2c14fe70881b7922018-04-30Verified
Montana State AGbd_3e57f3822a6e4de72018-06-14 · +45dVerified

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION
norm: national restaurant
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 2, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 30, 2018
Affected individuals: 5state-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: Worked with leading third-party forensic investigators
Began providing written notice of this incident to all affected individuals
Established a dedicated hotline for potentially affected individuals
Providing potentially affected individuals access to one ( 1) free year of credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Trans Union
Changes made: Reviewing its existing policies and procedures
Working to implement additional safeguards to protect the security of information in its systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 30 weeks(210 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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Massachusetts State AGApr 30 · first

New Hampshire State AGApr 30 · first · this page

Montana State AG+45d

Pattern: first filing Apr 30 (MA), last Jun 14 (MT) — a 45-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-restaurant-20180430.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 30, 2018
Raw hash: 6b5dad283b3662bd213b0c605ec340baf4453d3d2fdb5849a726513964350ce3

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityNATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION

Incidentdiscovered Oct 2, 2017

Stated responseWorked with leading third-party forensic investigators

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov