HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Primeritus Financial Services, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 10, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Primeritus Financial Services, Inc. →

Primeritus Financial Services notified the NH AG that an unauthorized individual accessed one employee email account between Aug 9-19, 2021. The incident likely exposed PII (names, SSNs, DOBs) of affected individuals. Notices were sent on Aug 5, 2022, offering 24-month credit monitoring and identity theft recovery services.

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Incident timeline

Aug 9, 2021

Begins

Aug 10, 2022

Filed

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

Name: MCDONALD HOPKINS LLC
norm: mcdonald hopkins

Name: Primeritus Financial Services, Inc.
norm: primeritus financial
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Aug 9, 2021 – Aug 19, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 5, 2022
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Advising affected residents about the process for placing a fraud alert and/or security freeze on their credit files
Providing contact information for consumer reporting agencies and the Federal Trade Commission
Offering 24 months of credit and CyberScan monitoring
Providing a $1,000,000 insurance reimbursement policy
Providing fully managed identity theft recovery services
Setting up a dedicated and confidential toll-free response line
Changes made: Continually evaluates and modifies its practices and internal controls to enhance the security and privacy of personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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/primeritus-financial-services-20220810.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 10, 2022
Raw hash: 40dcef19db79016e341400ca9cb63c0e947c2c629d9b62e7e5927e08705ba394

Reporting entityMCDONALD HOPKINS LLC

Victim entityPrimeritus Financial Services, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseAdvising affected residents about the process for placing a fraud alert and/or security freeze on their credit files

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov