HackingFinancial ServicesProfessional ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancialMediumContained

Credit Infonet, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 7, 2011

Filed

Dec 27, 2011

To disclose

20 days

Affected

3state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Credit Infonet, Inc. →

CIN Legal Data Services (Credit Infonet, Inc.) notified the NH Attorney General that unauthorized access occurred between Sept 23 and Nov 8, 2011, using a client's stolen login credentials. Discovered Dec 7, 2011, the incident affected 3 NH residents. Data exposed included names, addresses, partial SSNs, and credit details. The client account was deactivated, and consumers received notification letters and 1-year credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 75 days

discovery → filing · 20 days

Sep 23, 2011

Begins

Dec 7, 2011

Discovered

Dec 27, 2011

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3 affectedView incident

Name: Credit Infonet, Inc.
norm: credit infonet

Name: Credit Infonet, Inc.
norm: credit infonet
Also named: Credit Infonet, Inc.dba oflegal entity
The CINgroup and CIN Legal Data Servicesdba oftrade name
Industry: Financial ServicesllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 7, 2011
Breach occurred: Sep 23, 2011 – Nov 8, 2011
Undetected for: 75 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 22, 2011
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Began working with W. Kirkland Taylor, Experian, and TransUnion to jointly investigate
Coordinated with both Experian and TransUnion to notify the affected consumers by letters
Provided the following information to help protect the affected consumers from potential misuse of their information
Offering a complimentary one-year membership in Experian’s ProtectMyIDTM Alert credit monitoring service
Changes made: Client account in question and all of its associated log in credentials were inactivated
Account has been permanently deactivated
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 days(20 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/cin-legal-20111227.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 27, 2011
Raw hash: f454aed2c0b323605bc4468fc00fdd21b8f272ee39783a3b715fb90ff73c66c1

Reporting entityCredit Infonet, Inc.

Victim entityCredit Infonet, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Dec 7, 2011

Stated responseBegan working with W. Kirkland Taylor, Experian, and TransUnion to jointly investigate

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov