AccidentalEnergy & UtilitiesFinancial ServicesUtilitiesMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

UIL Holdings Corporation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 11, 2016

Filed

Sep 16, 2016

To disclose

5 days

Affected

116

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for UIL Holdings Corporation →3 incidents on file

UIL Holdings Corporation inadvertently shared SPII (names, SSNs, 401k balances) of 116 former employees via a public filing with the Connecticut PURA. Discovered Sept 11, 2016. One NH resident affected. Remediation included data removal, investigation, and 2 years of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 days

Sep 11, 2016

Discovered

Sep 16, 2016

Filed

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_12597f7a760b29cf2016-09-16Verified

Name: UIL Holdings Corporation
norm: uil holdings

Name: UIL Holdings Corporation
norm: uil holdings
Industry: Energy & UtilitiesllmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 11, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 16, 2016
Affected individuals: 116state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1535 Unauthorized Access to Cloud Storage
Regulator citations: reported to Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) via public filingreported to New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Launched an investigation
Took immediate steps to remove the information from the PURA website
Retrieve, redact, and/or destroy all instances of the information
Reporting this error to the appropriate agencies
Offering each of the impacted individuals credit monitoring assistance from Experian Consumer Services at UIL’s expense for a period of two years
Changes made: Offering each of the impacted individuals credit monitoring assistance from Experian Consumer Services at UIL’s expense for a period of two years
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 days(5 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGSep 16 · first

New Hampshire State AGSep 16 · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/uil-holdings-20160916.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 16, 2016
Raw hash: daf500bb27fab50b618cc60f928603fcf0e02de7e60d65bc3f5f7aeb96be61b1

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityUIL Holdings Corporation

Victim entityUIL Holdings Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Sep 11, 2016

Stated responseLaunched an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov