AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDPIIMediumContained

EQUIFAX INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 19, 2010

Filed

Feb 10, 2010

To disclose

22 days

Affected

14state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for EQUIFAX INC. →12 incidents on file

Equifax notified the NH Attorney General of a security incident involving 14 NH residents. On Jan 19, 2010, Equifax discovered that W-2 forms mailed to employees via a payroll vendor had SSNs visible through the envelope window. Equifax notified affected employees and offered one year of free credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 22 days

Jan 19, 2010

Discovered

Feb 10, 2010

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed14 affectedView incident

Name: EQUIFAX INC.
norm: equifax
Domain: equifax.com

Name: EQUIFAX INC.
norm: equifax
Domain: equifax.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 19, 2010
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 22, 2010
Affected individuals: 14state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDPII
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau

During the incident: Notified all possibly affected current employees by email on January 22, 2010
Sent a letter to possibly affected former employees on January 25, 2010
Providing them, upon request, with one year of free credit monitoring of their credit files maintained by Equifax
Working with its payroll vendor to prevent this situation from happening again in the future
Changes made: Working with its payroll vendor to prevent this situation from happening again in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 days(22 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/equifax-20100210.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 10, 2010
Raw hash: 06e80fbf8e23112beefa25f1a73d1265faabcac57a21f0c75947adcc1b4bc4aa

Reporting entityEQUIFAX INC.

Victim entityEQUIFAX INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 19, 2010

Stated responseNotified all possibly affected current employees by email on January 22, 2010

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov