PhysicalManufacturingManufacturingLossCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)MediumContained

Heraeus Incorporated

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 18, 2010

Filed

Dec 29, 2010

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected · nationwide

5401 in this filing

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Heraeus Incorporated →

Heraeus Incorporated reported the loss of a steel cabinet containing tape backups of IT data and software. The cabinet was likely disposed of during a mass cleaning prior to demolition and sent to a landfill in Pennsylvania. The tapes may have contained names, addresses, Social Security numbers, financial account numbers, driver's license numbers, and medical information for up to 540 individuals, including one New Hampshire resident. Heraeus initiated an investigation, is reviewing security policies, and offered one year of identity theft protection to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 41 days

Nov 18, 2010

Discovered

Dec 29, 2010

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_860b7bff8ed5931c2010-12-30 · +1dVerified

Name: Heraeus Incorporated
norm: heraeus

Name: Heraeus Incorporated
norm: heraeus
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Nov 18, 2010
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 540state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: Notified the Office of the Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division of New Hampshire

During the incident: Took immediate steps to begin an investigation as to what potential information was contained on these images and which individuals were potentially impacted
Continuing to monitor this situation
Reexamining current data privacy and security policies and procedures to find ways of reducing the risk of future data breaches
Providing a year of free identity theft protection — IDFREEZE from TrustedID
Changes made: Reexamining current data privacy and security policies and procedures to find ways of reducing the risk of future data breaches
Continue to assess and modify privacy and data security policies and procedures to prevent similar situations from occurring
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(41 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGDec 29 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

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/heraeus-20101229.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 29, 2010
Raw hash: 45dd48e6cffdded49c5c9589fa204efd3def7a84ea24eee8fb825c483e659754

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHeraeus Incorporated

Victim entityHeraeus Incorporated

Incidentdiscovered Nov 18, 2010

Stated responseTook immediate steps to begin an investigation as to what potential information was contained on these images and which individuals were potentially impacted

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov