HackingHealthcareProfessional ServicesHealthcareStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountCredentialsMediumContained

Children's Hope Alliance

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 15, 2019

Filed

Sep 30, 2019

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Children's Hope Alliance →3 incidents on file

Children's Hope Alliance notified NH AG of unauthorized access to employee email accounts between April 23 and May 20, 2019. Discovered May 15, 2019. Affected data included SSN, PHI, financial accounts, and credentials. One NH resident affected. Remediation included credential resets, security enhancements, and 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 22 days

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 138 days

Apr 23, 2019

Begins

May 15, 2019

Discovered

Sep 30, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+8 wks slower

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_852bc99791efdbd42019-09-26 · +4dVerified

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: Children's Hope Alliance
norm: children s hope alliance
Industry: HealthcarellmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: May 15, 2019
Breach occurred: Apr 23, 2019 – May 20, 2019
Undetected for: 22 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 26, 2019
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountCredentials
Data elements: Social Security numberMedical information
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney GeneralNotifying any required federal and state regulators
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Engaged third-party forensic investigators
Changed the log-in credentials for the employee email accounts involved
Changes made: Continued ongoing efforts to enhance security controls
Implement additional controls to help protect employee email accounts from unauthorized access
Offering 12 months of free credit/identity monitoring and identity restoration services through ID Experts
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(138 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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Massachusetts State AGSep 26 · first

New Hampshire State AG+4d · this page

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/childrens-hope-allicance-20190930.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 30, 2019
Raw hash: bc01082d0194a165e35f4f9c7510ae526f489016d8ef724ff0e4d9b0c638bd17

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityChildren's Hope Alliance

Incidentdiscovered May 15, 2019

Stated responseEngaged third-party forensic investigators

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov