AccidentalProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Communications Workers of America

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 1, 2020

Filed

Jan 27, 2021

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected

22state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Communications Workers of America →2 incidents on file

Communications Workers of America (CWA) notified the New Hampshire Attorney General on January 27, 2021, of a data security incident discovered in mid-November 2020. A document containing names and Social Security Numbers of 22 NH residents was accessible on a private server without authentication. CWA removed the document, sent notification letters on January 20, 2021, and provided 12 months of free credit monitoring and identity restoration services.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 12 weeks / 87 days

Nov 1, 2020

Discovered

Jan 27, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_0cfd027c5c9200632021-01-25 · +2dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_e467119739c012832021-01-25 · +2dVerified
California State AGbd_44b7ba46df3fa9ce2021-01-22 · +5dVerified
Maine State AGbd_461dddb3b2c132d52021-01-22 · +5dVerified

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Montana State AGbd_e4294cf726bd2b022021-01-20 · +7dCandidate
Illinois State AGbd_16c0b3650e10b69d2021-01-01 · +26dVerified

Name: Communications Workers of America
norm: communications workers of america

Name: Communications Workers of America
norm: communications workers of america
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 1, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 20, 2021
Affected individuals: 22state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1535 Use of Cloud Storage
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General

During the incident: Removed the document from the server
Began efforts to determine whether the information had been accessed without authorization or was otherwise misused
Staff will be receiving extra data handling and cyber security training
Letters to impacted New Hampshire residents were sent via U.S. mail
Offering the affected residents credit monitoring and identity theft prevention and restoration services free of charge for a period of 12 months
Changes made: Staff will be receiving extra data handling and cyber security training
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(87 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

Montana State AG+19d

California State AG+21d

Maine State AG+21d

Massachusetts State AG+24d

Indiana State AG+24d

New Hampshire State AG+26d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Jan 27 (NH) — a 26-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/communications-workers-america-afl-cio-20210127.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 27, 2021
Raw hash: 963e6ac54590a75bb859254f14159e7258e9b207013484a0cc564af2b89036ca

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCommunications Workers of America

Victim entityCommunications Workers of America

Incidentdiscovered Nov 1, 2020

Stated responseRemoved the document from the server

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov