MisuseFinancial ServicesTechnologyFinancePrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

Malaga Bank F.S.B.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 30, 2022

Filed

Jan 13, 2023

To disclose

19 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Malaga Bank F.S.B. →

Malaga Bank, FSB, a financial institution, experienced a data event involving unauthorized access by a former Meriplex Communications employee. The insider downloaded names and Social Security numbers of one New Hampshire resident. Meriplex, the IT provider, terminated the employee, engaged forensic specialists, and notified law enforcement. Credit monitoring was offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 19 weeks / 136 days

Aug 30, 2022

Discovered

Jan 13, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+11 wks slower

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

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: Malaga Bank F.S.B.
norm: malaga bank fsb
Industry: financial_services
Industry: Financial ServicesllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Aug 30, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 9, 2023
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified state and federal law enforcementProviding written notice of this incident to relevant state regulators
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Terminating the employee
Notifying state and federal law enforcement
Launching an investigation with third-party forensic specialists
Securing their systems
Implementing additional safeguards such as password rotation, data loss prevention, USB restrictions, and a review of all system accesses
Providing additional training to its employees
Providing access to credit monitoring services for twenty-four (24) months, through Equifax
Providing impacted individuals with guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Changes made: Password rotation
Data loss prevention
USB restrictions
Review of all system accesses
Additional training to its employees
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.

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/meriplex-communications-20230113.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 13, 2023
Raw hash: 2847b8c702473b6815975c045f61774fb25f2d4decefdbccb088db7f52f25198

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityMalaga Bank F.S.B.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 30, 2022

Stated responseTerminating the employee

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov