MalwareFinancial ServicesFinanceRansomwareData EncryptedTargetedGovernment IDFinancial accountCredentialsMediumContained

The Hartford Financial Services Group

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 28, 2011

Filed

Mar 10, 2011

To disclose

10 days

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for The Hartford Financial Services Group →12 incidents on file

The Hartford notified the NH Attorney General of a virus detected on Feb 28, 2011, infecting servers since Feb 22. The malware potentially captured PII (SSN, bank info, credentials) from 4 NH residents. The Hartford reset passwords, engaged antivirus vendors, and offered 2 years of Equifax credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 6 days

discovery → filing · 10 days

Feb 22, 2011

Begins

Feb 28, 2011

Discovered

Mar 10, 2011

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_85892018c96221352011-03-14 · +4dVerified

Name: The Hartford Financial Services Group
norm: the hartford financial

Name: The Hartford Financial Services Group
norm: the hartford financial
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 28, 2011
Breach occurred: Feb 22, 2011 – Feb 28, 2011
Undetected for: 6 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 10, 2011
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDFinancial accountCredentials
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1056 Input Capture
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General

During the incident: Assembled its Security Event Response team to contain, control and assess the situation
Identified all infected servers
Worked with our anti-virus vendor to eradicate the virus
Blocked the virus from reaching other servers
Analyzed the impact
Hartford password was reset
Contacted Equifax... to provide... identity theft protection service
Changes made: Working with its anti-virus vendor ensure any system gaps are closed
Providing additional privacy and information security training for employees
Conducting a complete investigation of its security procedures and will implement additional security measures to close the gaps
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 · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGMar 10 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+4d

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/hartford-20110310.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 10, 2011
Raw hash: 48d8642cfc9b987ce35257d1bd4683a359186f3544183a0e29b02964ee6b8637

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThe Hartford Financial Services Group

Victim entityThe Hartford Financial Services Group

Incidentdiscovered Feb 28, 2011

Stated responseAssembled its Security Event Response team to contain, control and assess the situation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov