PhysicalFinancial ServicesFinanceTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

FOREST CITY TRADING GROUP, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 1, 2017

Filed

Apr 3, 2017

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

36state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for FOREST CITY TRADING GROUP, LLC →3 incidents on file

Forest City Trading Group, Inc. reported the theft of a laptop containing ESOP data (names, SSNs, DOBs, addresses) affecting 36 New Hampshire residents. Discovered March 1, 2017. Notifications sent March 31, 2017. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 33 days

Mar 1, 2017

Discovered

Apr 3, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed36 affectedView incident

Name: MCDONALD HOPKINS LLC
norm: mcdonald hopkins

Name: FOREST CITY TRADING GROUP, LLC
norm: forest city trading
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 1, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 31, 2017
Affected individuals: 36state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General Michael A. Delaney

During the incident: Commenced investigation
Notified law enforcement
Engaged external cybersecurity professionals to analyze the extent of the compromise and assist in the response
Changes made: Offering the residents a complimentary membership with a credit monitoring and identity theft protection service
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(33 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/forest-city-trading-20170403.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 3, 2017
Raw hash: 14c2c2fa8eb3e1e6b38dc858e007b3e68ea62456a5d3469aaea58d3e8ef23731

Reporting entityMCDONALD HOPKINS LLC

Victim entityFOREST CITY TRADING GROUP, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Mar 1, 2017

Stated responseCommenced investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov