HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsPhishingTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

FirstLease, Inc

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 15, 2018

Filed

Feb 19, 2019

To disclose

18 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for FirstLease, Inc →

FirstLease, Inc. notified the New Hampshire AG of an unauthorized access to an employee's email account. The actor accessed emails containing PII (SSN, Driver's License, financial accounts) of 1 NH resident between Sept 6-20, 2018. FirstLease detected suspicious activity on Oct 15, 2018, reset credentials, engaged forensic experts, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 39 days

discovery → filing · 18 weeks / 127 days

Sep 6, 2018

Begins

Oct 15, 2018

Discovered

Feb 19, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+10 wks slower

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_665bffe969e2bfde2019-02-21 · +2dVerified
Montana State AGbd_fb29c42d342b266f2019-02-15 · +4dCandidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_5c9281662c267e1f2019-04-01 · +41dVerified

Name: FirstLease, Inc
norm: firstlease

Name: FirstLease, Inc
norm: firstlease
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 15, 2018
Breach occurred: Sep 6, 2018 – Sep 20, 2018
Undetected for: 39 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 15, 2019
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Launched an investigation with the assistance of computer forensics experts
Changed the account credentials
Reset passwords for the affected account
Disabled forwarding rules from their email environment
Implemented multi-factor authentication for email access
Conducted additional employee training
Changes made: Reviewing its policies and procedures relating to data security
Implementing additional safeguards to further secure the information in its systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 weeks(127 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGFeb 15 · first

New Hampshire State AG+4d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+6d

New Hampshire State AG+45d

Pattern: first filing Feb 15 (MT), last Apr 1 (NH) — a 45-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/firstlease-20190219.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 19, 2019
Raw hash: 4d9da8488be16b5b5e5cd308f1686a44e2e975ffe5105591398aa4fcbe69dcd1

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFirstLease, Inc

Victim entityFirstLease, Inc

Incidentdiscovered Oct 15, 2018

Stated responseLaunched an investigation with the assistance of computer forensics experts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov