PhysicalManufacturingManufacturingTheftCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHighActive

CHART INDUSTRIES, INC.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Jul 24, 2009

Filed

Aug 10, 2009

To disclose

17 days

Affected · nationwide

1,6006 in this filing

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for CHART INDUSTRIES, INC. →

Chart Industries, Inc. reported the theft of eight password-protected laptops from its Garfield Heights, Ohio office on July 23, 2009. Discovered on July 24, the breach potentially affected up to 1,600 individuals, including 6 New Hampshire residents. Data at risk included names, addresses, SSNs, and dates of birth. Chart offered one year of credit monitoring and reported the incident to law enforcement.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 17 days

Jul 23, 2009

Begins

Jul 24, 2009

Discovered

Aug 10, 2009

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,600 affectedView incident

Name: Jackson Lewis
norm: jackson lewis
Domain: jacksonlewis.com

Name: CHART INDUSTRIES, INC.
norm: chart industries
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Jul 24, 2009
Breach occurred: Jul 23, 2009 – Jul 23, 2009
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,600state + nationwide
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 New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte

During the incident: Changed all access codes
Notified vendors of a possible data compromise
Reported the theft to the Garfield Heights, Ohio Police Department
Offered one year of free credit monitoring and related services
Changes made: Reexamining current data privacy and security policies and procedures to find ways of reducing the risk of future data breaches
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 days(17 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/chart-industries-20090810.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 10, 2009
Raw hash: 430f3fd3330d8e3864893acb932651b6e40712bfe1285f195fd6dfde5acbc3e5

Reporting entityJackson Lewis

Victim entityCHART INDUSTRIES, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jul 24, 2009

Stated responseChanged all access codes

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov