PhysicalFinancial ServicesFinanceTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

Nix Check Cashing

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 17, 2010

Filed

Jun 30, 2010

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

113state residents only

Confidence

66%

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Nix Check Cashing reported the theft of a computer containing customer PII (names, addresses, SSNs, driver's licenses) from a branch in New Hampshire. The incident occurred on May 17, 2010. Approximately 113 NH residents were notified. No evidence of misuse was found at the time of filing.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 44 days

May 17, 2010

Begins

May 17, 2010

Discovered

Jun 30, 2010

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed113 affectedView incident

Name: Nix
norm: nix
Domain: nixlice.com

Name: Nix Check Cashing
norm: nix check cashing
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 17, 2010
Breach occurred: May 17, 2010
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 30, 2010
Affected individuals: 113state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Department of Justice Consumer Protection Bureau

During the incident: The theft was reported to local authorities on 5/17/2010
Nix Check Cashing promptly undertook measures to determine what personal information was on the computer
Nix Check Cashing is sending notification letters via first-class mail to any individual whose personal information is believed to have been on the computer
Offering free enrollment in Triple Alert as a precautionary measure
Providing this credit monitoring product to you at no cost for the next 12 months
Changes made: Put new procedures into place
Developing additional security measures to ensure that this type of situation cannot happen again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(44 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/nix-check-20100603.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 30, 2010
Raw hash: 61df3fbfb605be995ccd5937c5dda13dd84e2cc13c3dfcb7774c30a620a7e95b

Reporting entityNix

Victim entityNix Check Cashing

Incidentdiscovered May 17, 2010

Stated responseThe theft was reported to local authorities on 5/17/2010

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov