MalwareTransportation & LogisticsTransportationDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

First Transit, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 21, 2015

Filed

Nov 30, 2015

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for First Transit, Inc. →2 incidents on file

First Transit, Inc. notified the NH AG of a security incident where malware on a server compromised employee PII (SSN, DL, DOB, etc.) between Oct 2011 and Sep 2015. Discovered Oct 2015, 1 NH resident affected. Server replaced and hardened.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1459 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 40 days

Oct 23, 2011

Begins

Oct 21, 2015

Discovered

Nov 30, 2015

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: First Transit, Inc.
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Name: First Transit, Inc.
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Industry: Transportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: Oct 21, 2015
Breach occurred: Oct 23, 2011 – Sep 30, 2015
Undetected for: 1,459 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 4, 2015
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Engaged an independent forensic investigation firm to assist with the investigation and remediation
Disabled the malware
Took the affected server offline
Replaced the server with a clean and hardened server with additional security enhancements, including a threat manager monitoring tool
Changes made: Replaced the server with a clean and hardened server with additional security enhancements, including a threat manager monitoring tool
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(40 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/first-transit-20151130.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 30, 2015
Raw hash: ce6d9f6f7c2c1653e19c31827f3809b15e4dcb2420ba74c02816510c2a24915c

Reporting entityFirst Transit, Inc.

Victim entityFirst Transit, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 21, 2015

Stated responseEngaged an independent forensic investigation firm to assist with the investigation and remediation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov