AccidentalProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesMisconfigurationDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)LowContained

National Experienced Workforce Solutions, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 18, 2024

Filed

May 21, 2024

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for National Experienced Workforce Solutions, Inc. →

National Experienced Workforce Solutions, Inc. notified consumers that an internal website containing enrollee personal information was inadvertently made publicly accessible between March 14 and March 18, 2024. The incident involved a misconfiguration error, not malicious activity. Affected data included names and other personal identifiers. The company engaged forensic specialists, removed public access, coordinated with Google to de-index the site, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday9 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 4 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 64 days

Mar 14, 2024

Begins

Mar 18, 2024

Discovered

May 21, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

10 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Vermont State AGbd_a9fed0ff90850a9d2024-05-21Candidate

Name: National Experienced Workforce Solutions, Inc.
norm: national experienced workforce

Name: National Experienced Workforce Solutions, Inc.
norm: national experienced workforce
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 18, 2024
Breach occurred: Mar 14, 2024 – Mar 18, 2024
Undetected for: 4 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 21, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Regulator citations: notify applicable regulatory authorities where necessary

During the incident: Launched an investigation, with the assistance of third-party forensic specialists
Immediately removed public access to the website and limited access to authorized users
Coordinated with Google to ensure any contents of the website that had been indexed by their search engine be removed
Conducted a thorough review to determine the extent to which enrollee personal information was potentially impacted
Offering 24-months of complimentary access to credit monitoring services through Experian
Changes made: Continue to review our policies, procedures and processes related to the storage and access of personal information to reduce the likelihood of a similar future event
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(64 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >14 bday
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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Vermont State AGMay 21 · first

Vermont State AGMay 21 · first · this page

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Leak-site claim

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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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2024-05-21-national-experienced-workforce-solutions-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 21, 2024
Raw hash: 0c17251dd0f9e2e20e53e3f80c0000b50cda16bbe0ed011922c89204068ba4f4

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNational Experienced Workforce Solutions, Inc.

Victim entityNational Experienced Workforce Solutions, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 18, 2024

Stated responseLaunched an investigation, with the assistance of third-party forensic specialists

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov