Social EngineeringOtherPhishingStolen CredentialsMulti-Stage ChainCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 31, 2019

Filed

Mar 1, 2019

To disclose

29 days

Affected

42state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, INC. →4 incidents on file

American Cancer Society, Inc. notified NH AG of a phishing attack affecting 42 NH residents. Unauthorized access to employee email accounts occurred Jan 8-31, 2019. Data exposed: names and SSNs. ACS retained forensic experts, reset passwords, notified law enforcement, and provided 1 year of credit monitoring via Kroll.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 23 days

discovery → filing · 29 days

Jan 8, 2019

Begins

Jan 31, 2019

Discovered

Mar 1, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_4c4a1583cda39eeb2019-03-01Verified
Montana State AGbd_bc6d9c3c444b80152019-03-01Candidate
California State AGbd_db5fd568ffe144592019-03-01Verified

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, INC.
norm: american cancer society
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Jan 31, 2019
Breach occurred: Jan 8, 2019 – Jan 31, 2019
Undetected for: 23 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 1, 2019
Affected individuals: 42state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the New Hampshire Attorney GeneralNotifying all necessary state and federal regulatorsNotifying the three major consumer reporting agencies
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: ACS immediately began changing user passwords resulting in an enterprise wide password change
Industry leading forensic experts were retained to assist with determining the nature and scope of the incident
ACS notified law enforcement of the event
ACS is notifying all necessary state and federal regulators as well as the three major consumer reporting agencies
Providing complimentary access to one year of credit monitoring, fraud consultation, and identity theft restoration services through Kroll Cyber Security
Changes made: Working to continue to educate all staff and improve its cyber security practices to help prevent a phishing attack like this from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 29 days(29 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGMar 1 · first

Montana State AGMar 1 · first

California State AGMar 1 · first

New Hampshire State AGMar 1 · first · this page

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/american-cancer-society-20190301.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 1, 2019
Raw hash: 2093e1f24555207aeca0d6aabf391411f457a60c6bbbc23b9cf037f99ce48510

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 31, 2019

Stated responseACS immediately began changing user passwords resulting in an enterprise wide password change

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov