AccidentalManufacturingManufacturingMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumResolved

COVESTRO LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 17, 2019

Filed

Sep 26, 2019

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

11state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for COVESTRO LLC →2 incidents on file

Covestro LLC notified the NH AG of an accidental internal disclosure of employee PII (names, SSNs, DOBs, addresses) via a misconfigured spreadsheet on CovestroNet. Incident occurred April 1, 2019; discovered July 17, 2019. 11 NH residents notified. No external access or misuse found. Remediation included policy review and 1-year identity protection services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 107 days

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 71 days

Apr 1, 2019

Begins

Jul 17, 2019

Discovered

Sep 26, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed11 affectedView incident

Name: COVESTRO LLC
norm: covestro

Name: COVESTRO LLC
norm: covestro
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Jul 17, 2019
Breach occurred: Apr 1, 2019
Undetected for: 107 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 23, 2019
Affected individuals: 11state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1074 Data Staged
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General Consumer Protection Bureau
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Removed the document so it was no longer searchable through CovestroNet
Conducted an investigation concerning the incident
Reviewing its policies and procedures concerning the handling of employee personal information
Instituting additional internal controls for those responsible for such documents
Reminded employees of the classification and security requirements associated with handling such information
Offering affected individuals one (1) year of identity protection services at no charge
Providing direct notification by letter to affected individuals
Changes made: Reviewing policies and procedures concerning the handling of employee personal information
Instituting additional internal controls for documents
Reminding employees of classification and security requirements
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(71 days from discovery to filing)
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/covestro-20190926.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 26, 2019
Raw hash: bb19336e0de7e3db22edcaeb11d6a7be9b8c6807b381190aa8ec8a99273f4fa1

Reporting entityCOVESTRO LLC

Victim entityCOVESTRO LLC

Incidentdiscovered Jul 17, 2019

Stated responseRemoved the document so it was no longer searchable through CovestroNet

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov