MisuseTechnologyFinancial ServicesInformationPrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumContained

EQUIFAX INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 1, 2015

Filed

Jun 5, 2015

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for EQUIFAX INC. →12 incidents on file

Equifax, a third-party vendor for Rite Aid, experienced an insider threat incident where a former employee misused access privileges to reset accounts and access PII (SSN, payroll info) of Rite Aid employees. The incident occurred Jan-Feb 2015. Rite Aid notified NH AG on June 5, 2015. Affected individuals received notification and credit monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 59 days

discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 96 days

Jan 1, 2015

Begins

Mar 1, 2015

Discovered

Jun 5, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

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

Name: Rite Aid Corporation
norm: rite aid
Domain: riteaid.com

Name: EQUIFAX INC.
norm: equifax
Domain: equifax.com
Industry: TechnologyllmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 1, 2015
Breach occurred: Jan 1, 2015 – Feb 28, 2015
Undetected for: 59 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 1, 2015
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Equifax was working with law enforcement on the matter
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Equifax has taken steps to prevent any further inappropriate access
Performing an account reset that requires the affected individuals to contact Equifax and reestablish their account access
Performing daily targeted network monitoring for suspicious activity
Equifax mailed the attached notification to all of the affected New Hampshire residents
Equifax will be offering all affected individuals a free subscription to Equifax ID Patrol identity theft protection product
Changes made: Equifax has taken steps to prevent any further inappropriate access
Performing an account reset that requires the affected individuals to contact Equifax and reestablish their account access
Performing daily targeted network monitoring for suspicious activity
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 weeks(96 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/rite-aid-20150605.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 5, 2015
Raw hash: be56ff20fb96d608e0c334278f234338f138d24684accfb20f614a4de7c7d5b8

Reporting entityRite Aid Corporation

Victim entityEQUIFAX INC.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 1, 2015

Stated responseEquifax has taken steps to prevent any further inappropriate access

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov