HackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedRansom DemandedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumActive

Emerson Hospital

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 20, 2020

Filed

May 27, 2020

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

136state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Emerson Hospital →2 incidents on file

Emerson Hospital notified NH AG of a third-party vendor breach involving PaperlessPay Corporation. Unauthorized access occurred Feb 19, 2020, when an actor attempted to sell database access on the dark web. 136 NH residents potentially affected; data may include SSN, salary, name, address. Emerson terminated contract and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 30 days

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 68 days

Feb 19, 2020

Begins

Mar 20, 2020

Discovered

May 27, 2020

Filed

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on median

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

Part of PaperlessPay Corporation supply-chain incident (2020) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_498ded2c7e1096f82020-05-26 · +1dVerified

Name: Emerson Hospital
norm: emerson hospital

Name: Emerson Hospital
norm: emerson hospital
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Mar 20, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 19, 2020
Undetected for: 30 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 26, 2020
Affected individuals: 136state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Department of Homeland Security (DHS)Cooperated with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Stopped sending data to PaperlessPay Corporation
Cancelled contract with PaperlessPay Corporation
Engaged in joint investigation with DHS and FBI
Retained a cybersecurity firm to conduct a forensic investigation
Provided complimentary identity theft protection services through Experian
Changes made: Provided complimentary two-year membership of Experian IdentityWorks Credit 3B
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(68 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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Massachusetts State AGMay 26 · first

New Hampshire State AG+1d · 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/emerson-hospital-20200527.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 27, 2020
Raw hash: ae0a9ec85770ee4d5f5d51e2c5a7d52eee8ccff9e6e23a3da1de832b041705c4

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityEmerson Hospital

Victim entityEmerson Hospital

Incidentdiscovered Mar 20, 2020

Stated responseStopped sending data to PaperlessPay Corporation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov