HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Petersen & Hicks

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 29, 2023

Filed

Dec 20, 2023

To disclose

25 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

67%

Petersen & Hicks notified consumers of a cyber incident affecting an email account accessed by an unauthorized individual between June 23 and June 30, 2023. The breach potentially exposed minors' names, addresses, and Social Security numbers. The firm offered one year of complimentary identity monitoring via Kroll.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday25 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 · 6 days

discovery → filing · 25 weeks / 174 days

Jun 23, 2023

Begins

Jun 29, 2023

Discovered

Dec 20, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+6 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_1bab3f20e14966792023-12-20Verified

Name: Petersen & Hicks
norm: petersen & hicks
Domain: petersenind.com

Name: Petersen & Hicks
norm: petersen & hicks
Domain: petersenind.com
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jun 29, 2023
Breach occurred: Jun 23, 2023 – Jun 30, 2023
Undetected for: 6 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: Dec 20, 2023
Notification sent: Dec 20, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: notifying state regulators, as required
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Launched an investigation to determine the nature and scope of the incident
Assess the security of our email accounts
Notify potentially affected individuals
Offering your minor twelve months of complimentary access to identity monitoring services through Kroll
Changes made: Working to implement additional security measures to further protect against similar incidents in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 25 weeks(174 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bday
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGDec 20 · first

Vermont State AGDec 20 · first · 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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-12-20-petersen-hicks-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 20, 2023
Raw hash: 89e7d10d1c5f4ea167d97989c31290c4778e316d7ee3f7dba31c0fcf4751d24b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPetersen & Hicks

Victim entityPetersen & Hicks

Incidentdiscovered Jun 29, 2023

Stated responseLaunched an investigation to determine the nature and scope of the incident

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov