MalwareProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesRansomwareRansom DemandedData ExfiltratedEmployee Data InvolvedCustomer Data InvolvedEmploymentIdentity (basic)LowContained

Liberty Lines

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 27, 2023

Filed

May 15, 2023

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Liberty Lines →

Liberty Lines notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a ransomware attack on February 17, 2023. The attacker encrypted systems and exfiltrated employment records. Liberty notified law enforcement, engaged forensic experts, and restricted remote access. Notifications were mailed to affected individuals on May 12, 2023, offering 24 months of credit monitoring. One New Hampshire resident was affected.

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Leak gap clock⏱ Leak >30d7 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 38 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 49 days

Feb 17, 2023

Begins

Mar 27, 2023

Discovered

May 15, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

12 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by blacksuit about this victim predates this filing by 61 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (2)

Leak Sitelosttrustbd_e842e21ea154b6c72023-09-26 · +134dVerified by operator
Leak Siteblacksuitbd_51c4d50b0cdf84482023-03-15 · +61dVerified by operator

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_a873a9294525e0722023-05-12 · +3dVerified

Name: Liberty Lines
norm: liberty lines
Domain: liberty.edu

Name: Liberty Lines
norm: liberty lines
Domain: libertylines.com
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 27, 2023
Breach occurred: Feb 17, 2023
Undetected for: 38 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 12, 2023
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: EmploymentIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General John Formella

During the incident: Notified law enforcement
Retained computer forensic experts
Commenced an investigation to determine what information the attacker took from its network
Provided preliminary notification to all employees
Offering all potentially affected individuals 24 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft restoration from Kroll
Changes made: Increasing threat detection
Further restricting remote access to meet the continually evolving cyber threat
Provide regular reminders on how to spot and avoid being victimized by fraudulent emails in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(49 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: Leak >30d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGMay 12 · first

New Hampshire State AG+3d · this page

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/liberty-lines-20230515.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 15, 2023
Raw hash: 2501b1e5284613aa014c1c088a9ef608969bfbca45e46cbe6e0441a9efc30316

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (2)

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLiberty Lines

Victim entityLiberty Lines

Incidentdiscovered Mar 27, 2023

Stated responseNotified law enforcement

ComplianceLeak >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov