HackingIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)MediumContained

Cotton Land Title

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 3, 2022

Filed

Sep 9, 2022

To disclose

27 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Cotton Land Title →

Cotton Land Title, LLC reported unauthorized access to a corporate email account on March 3, 2022. The incident potentially exposed names, addresses, SSNs, DOB, driver's license info, financial account info, and health data for one New Hampshire resident. Notification was sent on September 9, 2022. Response included password changes, enabling MFA, and offering credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 27 weeks / 190 days

Mar 3, 2022

Discovered

Sep 9, 2022

Filed

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

Name: CLARK HILL PLC
norm: clark hill

Name: Cotton Land Title
norm: cotton land title
Domain: cottonlandtitle.com

Discovered: Mar 3, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 9, 2022
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Hired a third-party vendor to conduct an in-depth review of the email account
The password to the affected corporate email account was changed
Multifactor authentication was enabled across all corporate email accounts
Individuals were offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity protection services through Cyberscout
Changes made: Multifactor authentication was enabled across all corporate email accounts
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 weeks(190 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/byron-cotton-20220909.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 9, 2022
Raw hash: 91d76acfd5e9eef7f000cfb0c6a7a8632531641249674c1c4a29bf890adf49c2

Reporting entityCLARK HILL PLC

Victim entityCotton Land Title

Incidentdiscovered Mar 3, 2022

Stated responseHired a third-party vendor to conduct an in-depth review of the email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov