MalwareRansomwareData ExfiltratedData EncryptedIDENTITY_BASICLowContained
Houser
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Full breach record for Houser →Houser LLP, a law firm, notified consumers of a data breach where unauthorized actors encrypted files and exfiltrated data between May 7-9, 2023. The incident was discovered on May 9, 2023. Affected data included names and other personal information. Houser engaged forensic specialists, reported to law enforcement, and implemented enhanced security controls including MFA and EDR. Credit monitoring services were offered to affected individuals.
Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday46 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
This filing is one of 19 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_13a325d86f76f6f7New Hampshire State AGfiled 2024-03-26(1d gap)Verified
- bd_18b5dd7e86b21352Delaware State AGfiled 2024-03-26(1d gap)Verified
- bd_8a4cf4dd8b36d1b4California State AGfiled 2024-03-26(1d gap)Verified
- bd_c1c7841f0ee89fe5Maine State AGfiled 2024-03-26(1d gap)Verified
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- bd_3f910d0506adf4a3California State AGfiled 2024-04-12(16d gap)Verified
- bd_521a4b0865ecc11aVermont State AGfiled 2024-04-12(16d gap)Verified
- bd_5c7bcad0b397e0a1New Hampshire State AGfiled 2024-04-12(16d gap)Verified
- bd_631c1acc1b5f6e81Delaware State AGfiled 2024-04-12(16d gap)Verified
- bd_b60a96892267f8ccMaine State AGfiled 2024-04-12(16d gap)Verified
- bd_07473cc11b32f8e7Maine State AGfiled 2024-02-28(28d gap)Candidate
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Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2024-03-27-houser-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Mar 27, 2024
- Raw hash
- ae17b7619d2bc66b94da281dd515df158ce6e635fb4ecf2d179504c7265d10e5
Reporting entity
- Name
- Housernorm: houser
- Domain
- houser.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Housernorm: houser
- Domain
- houser.com
Incident
- Discovered
- May 9, 2023
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Mar 26, 2024
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Ransomware
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Reported this incident to law enforcement
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 46 weeks(323 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- VT AG >45 bday
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.