AccidentalProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)MediumResolved

Holstein Association USA, Inc.

bd_84292d455842a0c2 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 8, 2016

Filed

Aug 22, 2016

To disclose

14 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Holstein Association USA, Inc. →3 incidents on file

Holstein Association USA, Inc. notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of an inadvertent disclosure of a single former employee's PPI (SSN, DOB, address) to a third-party annuity provider. The incident was discovered on August 8, 2016, and the employee was notified on August 12, 2016. The organization is working with the annuity provider to prevent recurrence.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 14 days

Aug 8, 2016

Discovered

Aug 22, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

17 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Holstein Association USA, Inc.
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Name: Holstein Association USA, Inc.
norm: holstein association usa
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 8, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 12, 2016
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1567 Hope Activity
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General Joseph Foster

During the incident: Notified the former employee by telephone on August 8, 2016
Notified the former employee by letter, sent via email and First Class Mail, on August 12, 2016
Working with the annuity company that maintains the pension-related information
Changes made: Working with the annuity company that maintains the pension-related information to ensure this type of disclosure does not happen again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 days(14 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/holstein-association-20160822.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 22, 2016
Raw hash: dfbd8769c05eb6a1e470f58d6be6d84a9de0532cec79d086ac6a22663f602ce4

Reporting entityHolstein Association USA, Inc.

Victim entityHolstein Association USA, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 8, 2016

Stated responseNotified the former employee by telephone on August 8, 2016

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov