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Gale Associates, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 12, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

324state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Gale Associates, Inc. →

Gale Associates, Inc. reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2025-09-12. 324 Massachusetts residents were affected.

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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

Sep 12, 2025

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 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_19173f0972c04e4c2025-09-12Candidate
Vermont State AGbd_8fc4854ef0a6b3ed2025-09-12Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_d2f187b64f0cd8442025-09-12Verified

Name: Gale Associates, Inc.
norm: gale associates

Name: Gale Associates, Inc.
norm: gale associates

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 324state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDFinancial accountPCI
Data elements: Social Security numberFinancial account numberDriver's licence numberPayment card number
Stated not affected: Medical information
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 · 4 filings · 4 states

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Maine State AGSep 12 · first

Vermont State AGSep 12 · first

New Hampshire State AGSep 12 · first

Massachusetts State AGSep 12 · first · this page

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-2025/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 12, 2025
Raw hash: c086e80c0d1fda9bf60847e5c84b767fe0e606d88267511a67b1e5bff4a4d556

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityGale Associates, Inc.

Victim entityGale Associates, Inc.

IncidentUnknown

ComplianceMA credit monitoring due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov