UnknownGovernment IDHigh

City of Lowell, Massachusetts

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Nov 1, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

2,268state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for City of Lowell, Massachusetts →

City of Lowell reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2023-11-01. 2,268 Massachusetts residents were affected. The report records the breach type as electronic.

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Leak gap clock✗ Leak >180d

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Nov 1, 2023

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

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

A leak claim by play about this victim predates this filing by 190 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

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Ransomware claims (2)

Leak Siteplaybd_a9f15145b8af8fcd2023-05-03 · +181dVerified by operator
Leak Siteplaybd_aa07894ca9c3dfda2023-04-25 · +190dCandidate

Name: City of Lowell, Massachusetts
norm: city of lowell massachusetts
Domain: lowellma.gov

Name: City of Lowell, Massachusetts
norm: city of lowell massachusetts
Domain: lowellma.gov

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,268state-resident count only
Data types: Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Stated not affected: Financial account numberDriver's licence numberPayment card number
The filing states these were not involved. Categories absent from both lists were not addressed either way.
Attack vector: Unknown

Compliance flags: Leak >180dMA credit monitoring due
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://www.mass.gov/doc/data-breach-report-2023/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 1, 2023
Raw hash: 086533cfc760afd71f3e04752dc342918543201fbd94b60bc46682bcebef3b3d

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (2)

Reporting entityCity of Lowell, Massachusetts

Victim entityCity of Lowell, Massachusetts

IncidentUnknown

ComplianceLeak >180d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov