MisuseGovernmentGovernmentPrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

State of New Hampshire, Department of Health and Human Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 8, 2017

Filed

Oct 30, 2017

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for State of New Hampshire, Department of Health and Human Services →4 incidents on file

New Hampshire DHHS notified the AG of a security breach on Oct 30, 2017, regarding unauthorized access by an internal employee on Sept 8, 2017. Three NH residents' PII (names, addresses, DOBs, SSNs) was accessed. The employee was addressed and policies reviewed.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 52 days

Sep 8, 2017

Discovered

Oct 30, 2017

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3 affectedView incident

Name: State of New Hampshire, Department of Health and Human Services
norm: state of new hampshire department of health and human

Name: State of New Hampshire, Department of Health and Human Services
norm: state of new hampshire department of health and human
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Sep 8, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 30, 2017
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Investigate and address the employee's unauthorized access
Initiated an immediate review of existing policies and practices
Changes made: Improve our management and protection of confidential information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(52 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/health-human-services-20171030.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 30, 2017
Raw hash: b4ab42f8e4993611e0624290097e4f9d41cb3085949d08572e5b78c5b93ef69f

Reporting entityState of New Hampshire, Department of Health and Human Services

Victim entityState of New Hampshire, Department of Health and Human Services

Incidentdiscovered Sep 8, 2017

Stated responseInvestigate and address the employee's unauthorized access

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov