AccidentalProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumActive

Northeast Arc

bd_6f091350cf6dca9a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 8, 2017

Filed

Jan 5, 2018

To disclose

28 days

Affected

86state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Northeast Arc →5 incidents on file

Northeast Arc notified NH AG of a data event impacting 86 NH residents. On Dec 8, 2017, the org discovered an employee payroll file was inadvertently accessible within its network from March to Dec 2017 due to an infrastructure change. Data included names, SSNs, and financial account info. No evidence of external access. Remediation includes forensic consultation, credit monitoring, and policy review.

J jump to incidentP pin to compareR raw source

Incident timeline

undetected · 282 days

discovery → filing · 28 days

Mar 1, 2017

Begins

Dec 8, 2017

Discovered

Jan 5, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

15 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_35bd4f5952d21c752018-01-05Verified

Name: Northeast Arc
norm: northeast arc

Name: Northeast Arc
norm: northeast arc
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 8, 2017
Breach occurred: Mar 1, 2017 – Dec 1, 2017
Undetected for: 282 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 8, 2018
Affected individuals: 86state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1074 Data Staged
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the New Hampshire Attorney GeneralProvided notice of this incident to certain other state regulators where required

During the incident: Consulted with a third party forensic investigation firm and law enforcement
Providing these individuals 24 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services
Taking steps to mitigate the risk that an event like will happen again
Provided notice of this incident to certain other state regulators where required
Terminated accessibility to the information
Changes made: Reviewing our policies to prevent an incident like this from happening again in the future
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 · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗

Massachusetts State AGJan 5 · first

New Hampshire State AGJan 5 · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/northeast-arc-20180105.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 5, 2018
Raw hash: a60f1c4e19c6d2312fa902af355df5ebabb61fdacd6319e3c3db4463e5501c54

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNortheast Arc

Victim entityNortheast Arc

Incidentdiscovered Dec 8, 2017

Stated responseConsulted with a third party forensic investigation firm and law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov