AccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisconfigurationDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumContained

St. Lucie County's Drug Screening Lab

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 28, 2021

Filed

Jan 25, 2022

To disclose

28 days

Affected

14state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for St. Lucie County's Drug Screening Lab →

St. Lucie County’s Drug Screening Lab notified New Hampshire AG of a web portal misconfiguration exposing personal info (names, SSNs, lab results) of 14 NH residents. Access occurred between June 2017 and Oct 2021; discovered Dec 2021. Notifications sent Jan 2022 with credit monitoring offers.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1670 days

discovery → filing · 28 days

Jun 2, 2017

Begins

Dec 28, 2021

Discovered

Jan 25, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_8cfabb45ffd3070c2022-01-21 · +4dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_902e55d1a8bfafb12022-01-21 · +4dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_6def57cd12ec076b2022-01-20 · +5dVerified
Montana State AGbd_f905deac2ee53f572022-01-20 · +5dCandidate

Name: MCDONALD HOPKINS LLC
norm: mcdonald hopkins

Name: St. Lucie County's Drug Screening Lab
norm: st lucie county s drug screening lab
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Dec 28, 2021
Breach occurred: Jun 2, 2017 – Oct 13, 2021
Undetected for: 1,670 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 20, 2022
Affected individuals: 14state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

During the incident: Corrected the misconfiguration
Launched an investigation in consultation with outside cybersecurity professionals
Conducted an extensive forensic investigation and thorough review of the data impacted
Provided written notification to affected residents
Offered complimentary one-year membership with a credit monitoring service
Changes made: Corrected the misconfiguration in the web portal
Continually evaluates and modifies its practices to enhance the security and privacy of the personal information it maintains
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 28 days(28 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Indiana State AGJan 20 · first

Montana State AGJan 20 · first

Maine State AG+1d

Massachusetts State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+5d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 20 (IN), last Jan 25 (NH) — a 5-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/st-lucie-countys-drug-screening-lab-20220124.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 25, 2022
Raw hash: 33dd81b4e11be09f0e39a379985441c04f40ff626c354944f4e66aa68c98b984

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMCDONALD HOPKINS LLC

Victim entitySt. Lucie County's Drug Screening Lab

Incidentdiscovered Dec 28, 2021

Stated responseCorrected the misconfiguration

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov