MalwareRansomwareData ExfiltratedData EncryptedIDENTITY_BASICLowContained
Houser
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Full breach record for Houser →Houser LLP, a law firm, notified consumers on Feb 28, 2024, of a May 2023 ransomware incident. Unauthorized actors encrypted files and exfiltrated data between May 7-9, 2023. Impacted data included names and variable data. Houser engaged forensic specialists, reported to law enforcement, and offered credit monitoring. Remediation included EDR, MFA, and phishing simulations.
Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday42 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
This filing is one of 19 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_13a325d86f76f6f7New Hampshire State AGfiled 2024-03-26(27d gap)Verified
- bd_18b5dd7e86b21352Delaware State AGfiled 2024-03-26(27d gap)Verified
- bd_8a4cf4dd8b36d1b4California State AGfiled 2024-03-26(27d gap)Verified
- bd_c1c7841f0ee89fe5Maine State AGfiled 2024-03-26(27d gap)Verified
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- bd_af0b2641e3351df6Vermont State AGfiled 2024-03-27(28d gap)Verified
- bd_3f910d0506adf4a3California State AGfiled 2024-04-12(44d gap)Verified
- bd_521a4b0865ecc11aVermont State AGfiled 2024-04-12(44d gap)Verified
- bd_5c7bcad0b397e0a1New Hampshire State AGfiled 2024-04-12(44d gap)Verified
- bd_631c1acc1b5f6e81Delaware State AGfiled 2024-04-12(44d gap)Verified
- bd_b60a96892267f8ccMaine State AGfiled 2024-04-12(44d gap)Verified
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Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2024-02-28-houser-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Feb 28, 2024
- Raw hash
- e5e58554d17208909484824416907451a328936eba3df4c9a01eed5cfab04a6b
Reporting entity
- Name
- Housernorm: houser
- Domain
- houser.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Housernorm: houser
- Domain
- houser.com
Incident
- Discovered
- May 9, 2023
- Materiality determined
- Feb 28, 2024
- Notification sent
- Feb 28, 2024
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Ransomware
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Reported this incident to law enforcement
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 42 weeks(295 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- VT AG >45 bday
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.