HackingEducationProfessional ServicesEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedTargetedMulti-Stage ChainIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Green Energy Training Academy, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 18, 2014

Filed

Oct 27, 2014

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Green Energy Training Academy, LLC →

Green Energy Training Academy, LLC notified NH AG of a breach where an unauthorized party accessed systems on Oct 19, 2013, uploading a phishing site on July 13, 2014. Discovered July 18, 2014. Affected 53 individuals (1 NH resident). Data included names, financial info, SSNs. Remediation included forensics, Kroll identity protection, and security enhancements.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 272 days

discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 101 days

Oct 19, 2013

Begins

Jul 18, 2014

Discovered

Oct 27, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

+6 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed53 affectedView incident

Name: Green Energy Training Academy, LLC
norm: green energy training academy

Name: Green Energy Training Academy, LLC
norm: green energy training academy
Industry: EducationllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 18, 2014
Breach occurred: Oct 19, 2013
Undetected for: 272 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 31, 2014
Affected individuals: 53state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1078 Valid AccountsT1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Immediately shut down all access to our system
Engaged outside data forensics experts to conduct an extensive investigation
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity theft protection at no cost to all affected consumers for a period one (1) year
Changes made: Increasing firewall protections
Enhancing threat detection and monitoring capabilities
Further encryption of personal data
Improving other data security measures within the server
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 weeks(101 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/green-energy-training-20141027.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 27, 2014
Raw hash: 949ceaffa306a7a01d043efd4e79de39171a338416b74faf11407e89e54fd546

Reporting entityGreen Energy Training Academy, LLC

Victim entityGreen Energy Training Academy, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Jul 18, 2014

Stated responseImmediately shut down all access to our system

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov