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The Long & Foster Companies, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 22, 2020

Filed

Dec 7, 2020

To disclose

15 weeks

Affected

19state residents only

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for The Long & Foster Companies, Inc. →

The Long & Foster Companies, Inc. reported a ransomware attack on August 22, 2020, in a supplemental notice to the New Hampshire Attorney General. The incident potentially exposed personal information of 19 New Hampshire residents, including employees, agents, property managers, and vacation rental owners. Affected data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and financial account details. The company engaged forensic experts and the FBI, and is offering two years of credit monitoring. The investigation remains ongoing.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 15 weeks / 107 days

Aug 22, 2020

Begins

Aug 22, 2020

Discovered

Dec 7, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+7 wks slower

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

Delaware State AGbd_0e4f7cc333861c242020-12-01 · +6dVerified
Maine State AGbd_59c056781148cbf22020-12-01 · +6dVerified
California State AGbd_86c32d4710cbe0912020-12-01 · +6dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_e3cc11ab4a21208e2020-09-21 · +77dVerified

Show 4 more filings ↓up to 83d gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_19619fbf7d1943c42020-09-16 · +82dVerified
Maine State AGbd_766e0953ceaa327c2020-09-16 · +82dVerified
Montana State AGbd_5c28b38b9a3210d42020-09-15 · +83dCandidate
Indiana State AGbd_efcfa7b3c43219692020-09-15 · +83dVerified

Name: The Long & Foster Companies, Inc.
norm: the long foster companies
Domain: foxrothschild.com

Name: The Long & Foster Companies, Inc.
norm: the long foster companies
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Aug 22, 2020
Breach occurred: Aug 22, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 1, 2020
Affected individuals: 19state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the FBIProvided notice to certain other state regulators

During the incident: Launched an investigation with the assistance of leading cybersecurity experts and the FBI
Offering potentially impacted individuals with two (2) years of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services with NortonLifeLock, Inc.
Providing additional information on how to protect against identity theft and fraud
Provided notice of this event to certain other state regulators and the consumer reporting agencies as required
Changes made: Reviewing its policies and procedures
Engaged cybersecurity experts to implement additional safeguards and security protections to better protect against a similar event in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 weeks(107 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 7 states

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Montana State AGSep 15 · first

Indiana State AGSep 15 · first

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Maine State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+6d

Delaware State AG+77d

Maine State AG+77d

California State AG+77d

New Hampshire State AG+83d · this page

Pattern: first filing Sep 15 (MT), last Dec 7 (NH) — a 83-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/long-foster-20201207.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 7, 2020
Raw hash: d1f226de5e953394487f66bdca204ec16168e3f3adee1d51bbc2af8d69de9e13

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThe Long & Foster Companies, Inc.

Victim entityThe Long & Foster Companies, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 22, 2020

Stated responseLaunched an investigation with the assistance of leading cybersecurity experts and the FBI

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov