HackingEnergy & UtilitiesUtilitiesStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountMediumActive

New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG)

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 1, 2012

Filed

Jan 23, 2012

To disclose

22 days

Affected

921state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG) →

NYSEG notified NH AG of a security breach involving ~921 NH residents. Unauthorized access to customer records (SSN, DOB, financial accounts) was caused by an employee of a contracted software consulting firm. Investigation ongoing; credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 22 days

Jan 1, 2012

Discovered

Jan 23, 2012

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed921 affectedView incident

Name: New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG)
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Name: New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG)
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Industry: Energy & Utilitiesllm

Discovered: Jan 1, 2012
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 23, 2012
Affected individuals: 921state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General Michael A. Delaney pursuant to N.H. Rev. Stat. § 359-C:20(b)
Initial access: trusted_relationship

During the incident: Consulted with law enforcement
Engaged computer forensics experts
Offering to our affected customers one year of credit monitoring with Experian, free of charge
Changes made: Regularly assess and adapt our physical, administrative and technical security measures
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/new-york-state-electric-20120123.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 23, 2012
Raw hash: fc8b5d35c6ba006ee740204e531220822b88d340c470b6e83f9481487e3caade

Reporting entityNew York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG)

Victim entityNew York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG)

Incidentdiscovered Jan 1, 2012

Stated responseConsulted with law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov