HackingTransportation & LogisticsTransportationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Forward Air Corp

bd_a3124749f0e44aa0 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 24, 2020

Filed

Nov 16, 2020

To disclose

21 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

14 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Forward Air Corp →3 incidents on file

Forward Air Corporation notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a data event affecting one NH resident. Unauthorized actors accessed employee email accounts between June 20-26, 2020. Exposed data included names and Social Security numbers. Forward Air secured accounts, engaged forensic investigators, and provided one year of credit monitoring via Kroll to the affected individual.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 4 days

discovery → filing · 21 weeks / 145 days

Jun 20, 2020

Begins

Jun 24, 2020

Discovered

Nov 16, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 14 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Sitehadesbd_69daca6e5bc59daa2020-12-15 · +29dVerified by operator

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_08f5bdd8be02662b2020-11-11 · +5dCandidate
Illinois State AGbd_bb0159aed9dd5ed62021-01-01 · +46dVerified by operator
Maine State AGbd_4e519c8e4352ad1e2021-09-24 · +312dVerified
Montana State AGbd_9366040c480f58172021-09-24 · +312dVerified

Show 5 more filings ↓up to 316d gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_942507cd1a8b43cc2021-09-24 · +312dVerified
Maine State AGbd_9f6be7535a79c40c2021-09-24 · +312dVerified
California State AGbd_b222ea320c8293ed2021-09-24 · +312dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_f364a48b4e1da9442021-09-24 · +312dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_4b984181509b96682021-09-28 · +316dVerified

Showing first 10 of 13 linked disclosures.

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: Forward Air Corp
norm: forward air
Industry: Transportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: Jun 24, 2020
Breach occurred: Jun 20, 2020 – Jun 26, 2020
Undetected for: 4 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 11, 2020
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Took steps to secure the accounts
Began an investigation
Working with third-party forensic investigators
Reset the account password
Confirmed the security of our employee email accounts and related systems
Providing access to credit monitoring services for one (1) year, through Kroll
Changes made: Working to implement additional safeguards and training to its employee
Review our existing policies and procedures
Provide additional training to our employees on data privacy and security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 weeks(145 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗

Maine State AGNov 11 · first

New Hampshire State AG+5d · this page

Illinois State AG+51d

Maine State AG+317d

Montana State AG+317d

Massachusetts State AG+317d

Maine State AG+317d

California State AG+317d

Indiana State AG+317d

New Hampshire State AG+321d

Pattern: first filing Nov 11 (ME), last Sep 28 (NH) — a 321-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 13 — the full spread may be wider.

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/forward-air-20201116.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 16, 2020
Raw hash: 6e9e63e176b5ee4fb7f7085f2606965eb0c0c3d6a11581bb08367c2b944032f7

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityForward Air Corp

Incidentdiscovered Jun 24, 2020

Stated responseTook steps to secure the accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov