PhysicalFinancial ServicesFinanceTheftCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

Merrill Lynch

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 19, 2008

Filed

Dec 29, 2008

To disclose

10 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Merrill Lynch →6 incidents on file

Merrill Lynch notified the NH Attorney General that a third-party consultant's employee was burglarized in December 2008. A stolen laptop contained names and SSNs of NH-resident current/former Financial Advisors and applicants. No client data was involved. Notification letters were scheduled for Dec 30, 2008.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 days

Dec 19, 2008

Discovered

Dec 29, 2008

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_73d47f479be76c692008-12-31 · +2dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_385cb7ded7458ca72008-12-17 · +12dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_0c98507ddfa4188b2008-12-16 · +13dCandidate

Name: Merrill Lynch
norm: merrill lynch
Domain: ml.com

Name: Merrill Lynch
norm: merrill lynch
Domain: ml.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 19, 2008
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 30, 2008
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Office of Attorney General Consumer Protection Division

During the incident: Reported theft to law enforcement authorities
Letter of notification will be delivered to the New Hampshire residents affected
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 days(10 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGDec 16 · first

Massachusetts State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+13d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+15d

Pattern: first filing Dec 16 (NH), last Dec 31 (MA) — a 15-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/merrill-lynch-20081229.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 29, 2008
Raw hash: 28805579fe8a53829e6a986875f036b08fb85ad9dff04ca18fc301e27319d4f6

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMerrill Lynch

Victim entityMerrill Lynch

Incidentdiscovered Dec 19, 2008

Stated responseReported theft to law enforcement authorities

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov