HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

FirstLease, Inc

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 15, 2018

Filed

Apr 1, 2019

To disclose

24 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for FirstLease, Inc →

FirstLease, Inc. notified the NH AG of a data incident where an employee's email account was compromised. Unauthorized access occurred Sept 6-20, 2018; detected Oct 15, 2018. Exposed names and SSNs. FirstLease reset credentials, disabled forwarding rules, implemented MFA, and offered 12 months credit monitoring. Investigation ongoing.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 39 days

discovery → filing · 24 weeks / 168 days

Sep 6, 2018

Begins

Oct 15, 2018

Discovered

Apr 1, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+16 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_665bffe969e2bfde2019-02-21 · +39dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_7347b58b796281272019-02-19 · +41dVerified
Montana State AGbd_fb29c42d342b266f2019-02-15 · +45dCandidate

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: FirstLease, Inc
norm: firstlease
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 15, 2018
Breach occurred: Sep 6, 2018 – Sep 20, 2018
Undetected for: 39 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 26, 2019
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Changed the account credentials
Launched an investigation with the assistance of computer forensics experts
Disabled forwarding rules from their email environment
Implemented multi-factor authentication for email access
Conducted additional employee training
Offering affected individuals twelve (12) months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services through ID Experts
Changes made: Reviewing its policies and procedures relating to data security
Implementing additional safeguards to further secure the information in our systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 24 weeks(168 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 · 3 states

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Montana State AGFeb 15 · first

New Hampshire State AG+4d

Massachusetts State AG+6d

New Hampshire State AG+45d · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 15 (MT), last Apr 1 (NH) — 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/firstlease-20190401.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 1, 2019
Raw hash: d21594cb7e8741f6bd5224b5fcb781c91c85cc9ca9e3cc8ba4ae0f3dcfd1c926

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityFirstLease, Inc

Incidentdiscovered Oct 15, 2018

Stated responseChanged the account credentials

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov