PhysicalOtherTheftSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumContained

Ember Fire

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 10, 2011

Filed

Jan 19, 2011

To disclose

9 days

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

68%

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Ember Corporation notified the NH Attorney General of a breach involving employee W-2 forms tampered in transit from third-party provider Ceridian. 2 NH residents affected. Data included names, SSNs, addresses, and payroll info. Police report filed; credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 days

Jan 10, 2011

Discovered

Jan 19, 2011

Filed

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7 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2 affectedView incident

Name: Ember Fire
norm: ember fire
Domain: ember-fire.com

Name: Ember Fire
norm: ember fire
Domain: ember-fire.com
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Jan 10, 2011
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Provided notice to the Office of the Attorney General of New Hampshire pursuant to N.H. Rev. Stat. §359-C
Third party: via Ceridian

During the incident: Filed a police report
Provided informal notice to affected individuals via internal email and a company meeting
Offered one year of credit monitoring services by Debix at our expense
Changes made: Continue to try to understand how this incident happened and take steps to prevent anything similar from ever happening again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 days(9 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/ember-20110119.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 19, 2011
Raw hash: fb34d1090f209f260de7a2415d8f7bf5b29ce4a94f5f04e829f12f80da3ce04f

Reporting entityEmber Fire

Victim entityEmber Fire

Incidentdiscovered Jan 10, 2011

Stated responseFiled a police report

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov