HackingEducationEducationData MishandlingSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

Six Red Marbles

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 1, 2014

Filed

Dec 22, 2014

To disclose

21 days

Affected

12state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Six Red Marbles →

Six Red Marbles, LLC notified NH AG of a data security incident involving 12 NH residents. A third-party vendor posted 1099 tax data (names, SSNs, DOBs, addresses) on an unprotected FTP site. Six Red Marbles discovered the incident on Dec 1, 2014, and removed the data. The data may have been exposed since Sept 2014. Credit monitoring is being offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 91 days

discovery → filing · 21 days

Sep 1, 2014

Begins

Dec 1, 2014

Discovered

Dec 22, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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_d1ad0dcd32c5a0b22014-12-23 · +1dVerified

Name: Six Red Marbles
norm: six red marbles

Name: Six Red Marbles
norm: six red marbles
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Dec 1, 2014
Breach occurred: Sep 1, 2014
Undetected for: 91 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 12state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: trusted_relationship

During the incident: Gained access to the 1099 tax processing vendor’s server and removed its information from that server
In the process of notifying the persons whose information was posted
Offering each person credit monitoring services for a reasonable period of time
Changes made: Removed information from the unprotected FTP server
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 days(21 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 AGDec 22 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

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/six-red-marbles-20141222.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 22, 2014
Raw hash: ac4171a265a88b63bccc3e964ef1599ea61221dd4c75fa5b2f9d785874f482ab

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySix Red Marbles

Victim entitySix Red Marbles

Incidentdiscovered Dec 1, 2014

Stated responseGained access to the 1099 tax processing vendor’s server and removed its information from that server

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov