HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Hart & Patterson Financial Group

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 29, 2020

Filed

Oct 30, 2020

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

13state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Hart & Patterson Financial Group →2 incidents on file

Hart & Patterson Financial Group notified the NH Attorney General of a data security incident affecting 13 NH residents. An unauthorized party accessed an employee email account on June 11, 2020. The account contained names and SSNs. The company reset credentials, engaged forensic investigators, and offered credit monitoring. Discovery was confirmed on Sept 29, 2020. Notifications were sent Oct 29, 2020.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 110 days

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 31 days

Jun 11, 2020

Begins

Sep 29, 2020

Discovered

Oct 30, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_2fd85ce4d53768ec2020-10-29 · +1dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_4664728b630ef6632020-10-29 · +1dVerified

Name: Hart & Patterson Financial Group
norm: hart patterson financial

Name: Hart & Patterson Financial Group
norm: hart patterson financial
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 29, 2020
Breach occurred: Jun 11, 2020
Undetected for: 110 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 29, 2020
Affected individuals: 13state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Resetting the email account credentials
Retaining a leading forensic security firm to investigate and confirm the overall security of its email and computer systems
Secured the email account to prevent further access
Conducted a comprehensive search for any personal information in the one impacted email account
Providing the impacted New Hampshire residents with an offer for one year of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection
Changes made: Providing the impacted New Hampshire residents with an offer for one year of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(31 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Maine State AGOct 29 · first

Massachusetts State AGOct 29 · first

New Hampshire State AG+1d · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/hart-patterson-financial-20201030.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 30, 2020
Raw hash: 7458e6400d8efd3b0cf937f181d34571e093b22b1574129b1e6b8f22b76d34d4

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHart & Patterson Financial Group

Victim entityHart & Patterson Financial Group

Incidentdiscovered Sep 29, 2020

Stated responseResetting the email account credentials

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov