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Whdh-Tv

bd_b5f9c7038e7342b1 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 10, 2020

Filed

Dec 1, 2020

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected · nationwide

77514 in this filing

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Whdh-Tv →

WHDH-TV, a television station, reported a data breach affecting 14 Maine residents. The breach, which occurred on August 15, 2020, was discovered on October 10, 2020. The incident was described as an external system breach (hacking) and resulted in the exposure of Social Security Numbers. Affected individuals were notified on December 2, 2020, and offered 24 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Experian.

Maine clockDiscovered Oct 10, 2020 → Filed with AG Dec 1, 202052d ⏱ ME AG >30d7 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.

Incident timeline

undetected · 56 days
discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 52 days

Aug 15, 2020

Begins

Oct 10, 2020

Discovered

Dec 1, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
Massachusetts State AGDec 1 · first
Maine State AGDec 1 · first · this page
New Hampshire State AG+2d

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.