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SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Aug 27, 2021

To disclose

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Affected

962state residents only

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc. →

SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc. reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2021-08-27. 962 Massachusetts residents were affected. The report records the breach type as electronic.

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Massachusetts clock✓ MA credit monitoring due

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Aug 27, 2021

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_050d1847cd215db92021-08-27Verified
Maine State AGbd_79b8e613fe4dbbff2021-08-27Verified
South Carolina State AGbd_0db3e2cd96640c932021-08-25 · +2dVerified
Washington State AGbd_27e97a822e6e13622021-08-24 · +3dVerified

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Indiana State AGbd_97379d175ed5a5552021-08-24 · +3dVerified
Montana State AGbd_bb3c6553e769b6d42021-08-24 · +3dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_c24b30aeb03debab2021-08-24 · +3dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_767e5f0a78a5cc602021-01-01 · +238dCandidate

Name: SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc.
norm: smartstart employment screening

Name: SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc.
norm: smartstart employment screening

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 962state-resident count only
Data types: Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDriver's licence number
Stated not affected: Financial account numberPayment card number
The filing states these were not involved. Categories absent from both lists were not addressed either way.
Attack vector: Unknown

Compliance flags: MA credit monitoring due
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 9 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

Washington State AG+235d

Indiana State AG+235d

Montana State AG+235d

New Hampshire State AG+235d

South Carolina State AG+236d

California State AG+238d

Maine State AG+238d

Massachusetts State AG+238d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Aug 27 (MA) — a 238-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://www.mass.gov/doc/data-breach-report-2021/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 27, 2021
Raw hash: d63597501e5a4d07a844f81b8ffa28a1c3171c21a16b25e5fa912d327dcec2e7

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySmartStart Employment Screening, Inc.

Victim entitySmartStart Employment Screening, Inc.

IncidentUnknown

ComplianceMA credit monitoring due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov