AccidentalTechnologyInformationMisdeliveryDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumResolved

Monster Worldwide, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 24, 2011

Filed

Nov 4, 2011

To disclose

11 days

Affected

13state residents only

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Monster Worldwide, Inc. →

Monster Worldwide, Inc. notified the NH Attorney General of unauthorized access to personal information of 13 NH residents. A former employee discovered a spreadsheet containing SSNs, salaries, and PII of other former employees on a former employee's personal website. The data was likely exposed for over 8 years. Monster removed the file and notified affected individuals, offering credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 11 days

Oct 24, 2011

Discovered

Nov 4, 2011

Filed

vs. sector median

17 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed13 affectedView incident

Name: Monster Worldwide, Inc.
norm: monster worldwide

Name: Monster Worldwide, Inc.
norm: monster worldwide
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Oct 24, 2011
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 13state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1074 Data StagedT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Alerted its security team for investigation
Contacted the website owner to have the content removed
Contacted Google to remove its cached copy of the spreadsheet
Notified the former employee who reported the incident
Providing a year of credit monitoring and identity theft protection
Changes made: Made significant enhancements to security posture
Provides employees with annual training on how to handle and protect personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 days(11 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/monster-worldwide-20111104.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 4, 2011
Raw hash: 8f0229816a7e26a2070eb4813a53840fd4395170512ee42b88bb24d81a768379

Reporting entityMonster Worldwide, Inc.

Victim entityMonster Worldwide, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 24, 2011

Stated responseAlerted its security team for investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov