HackingEducationProfessional ServicesEducationData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Pharmacy Times Office of Continuing Professional Education, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 6, 2018

Filed

Nov 19, 2018

To disclose

19 weeks

Affected

129state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Pharmacy Times Office of Continuing Professional Education, LLC →

Pharmacy Times Office of Continuing Professional Education, LLC (PTCE) notified the NH AG of a data event affecting 129 NH residents. An unauthorized party may have accessed a publicly available file containing names and SSNs between May 11 and July 6, 2018. PTCE engaged forensic investigators, removed the file, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring via Kroll.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 56 days

discovery → filing · 19 weeks / 136 days

May 11, 2018

Begins

Jul 6, 2018

Discovered

Nov 19, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+11 wks slower

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Oregon State AGbd_5a13493eb8231c712018-11-13 · +6dCandidate
Washington State AGbd_62074ff78d72913f2018-11-13 · +6dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_ee8911aec0566b682018-11-13 · +6dVerified
California State AGbd_61c59abe6c8162592018-11-26 · +7dVerified

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Montana State AGbd_41994e74a3d0a96c2019-02-06 · +79dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_e5ba9a8b0f81201a2019-02-06 · +79dVerified

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: Pharmacy Times Office of Continuing Professional Education, LLC
norm: pharmacy times office of continuing professional education
Industry: EducationllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 6, 2018
Breach occurred: May 11, 2018 – Jul 6, 2018
Undetected for: 56 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 13, 2018
Affected individuals: 129state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage ObjectT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney GeneralProvided written notice to other state regulators

During the incident: Began working with third-party forensic investigators
Removed the file from the web server
Provided written notice to affected individuals
Offered complimentary access to one year of credit and identity monitoring services through Kroll
Changes made: Working to implement additional safeguards to protect the security of information in its system
Reviewing existing policies and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 19 weeks(136 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 6 states

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Oregon State AGNov 13 · first

Washington State AGNov 13 · first

Massachusetts State AGNov 13 · first

New Hampshire State AG+6d · this page

California State AG+13d

Montana State AG+85d

New Hampshire State AG+85d

Pattern: first filing Nov 13 (OR), last Feb 6 (NH) — a 85-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/pharmacy-times-20181119.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 19, 2018
Raw hash: ad6f16fd9e5f67d524c57899fa7996a31d11721e91bbbc2ac7922b97a17e67cc

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityPharmacy Times Office of Continuing Professional Education, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Jul 6, 2018

Stated responseBegan working with third-party forensic investigators

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov