MisuseTechnologyInformationPrivilege AbuseData MishandlingEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

TC Controls and Services, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 11, 2025

Filed

Mar 13, 2026

To disclose

31 weeks

Affected · nationwide

1713 in this filing

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for TC Controls and Services, Inc. →

TC Controls and Services, Inc. reported that an employee, Crystal Belanger, unauthorizedly emailed documents containing full names and social security numbers of 17 employees to her personal email on August 6, 2025. The company became aware of the incident on August 11, 2025. 13 Massachusetts residents were affected. The employee was terminated, police were notified, and a confidentiality agreement was secured. The company is implementing a Written Information Security Program and offering 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Massachusetts clock✗ MA AG >90d31 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.

Incident timeline

undetected · 5 days

discovery → filing · 31 weeks / 214 days

Aug 6, 2025

Begins

Aug 11, 2025

Discovered

Mar 13, 2026

Filed

vs. sector median

+12 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed17 affectedView incident

Name: TC Controls and Services, Inc.
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Name: TC Controls and Services, Inc.
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Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Aug 11, 2025
Breach occurred: Aug 6, 2025
Undetected for: 5 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 17state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Attack vector: Insider
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business RegulationNotified Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Performed an investigation to determine the full scope of the unauthorized disclosure and use of personal information
Terminated the employment of the employee who misused the employees’ personal information
Contacted the North Oxford Police Department and made a report regarding the incident
Took action to obtain a court order requiring the return and destruction of the information
Entered into a confidentiality agreement that includes this information
Changes made: Working to develop an appropriate Written Information Security Program (WISP)
Contracted with a third-party vendor to provide free credit monitoring services to the affected Massachusetts residents for a period of up to twenty-four (24) months
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 31 weeks(214 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MA AG >90d
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.

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://www.mass.gov/doc/2026-384-tc-controls-and-services-inc/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 13, 2026
Raw hash: b5c8bab5be8a4b2de4b11740e103a163c0bd74ac4ada8b26a638f2ada25e39c1

Reporting entityTC Controls and Services, Inc.

Victim entityTC Controls and Services, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 11, 2025

Stated responsePerformed an investigation to determine the full scope of the unauthorized disclosure and use of personal information

ComplianceMA AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov