HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDCredentialsFinancial accountMediumContained

Cortland Partners

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 3, 2018

Filed

Aug 23, 2018

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

68%

Cortland Partners notified the NH AG that on May 3, 2018, unauthorized access to an employee email account occurred. The incident affected 1 NH resident, exposing names, SSNs, passwords, and financial account info. Cortland changed passwords, engaged forensic investigators, and provided 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 112 days

May 3, 2018

Discovered

Aug 23, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+8 wks slower

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

Name: Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, PLLC
norm: lewis brisbois bisgaard smith

Name: Cortland Partners
norm: cortland partners
Domain: www2.cortland.edu
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 3, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDCredentialsFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Conducted an investigation to determine the scope of the incident
Changed the password for the account
Engaged a digital forensic firm to assist with the matter
Notified all affected individuals
Offering 12 months of credit and identity monitoring services at no cost
Changes made: Enhanced our security measures, making it more difficult for similar incidents to occur in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 weeks(112 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/cortland-partners-20180823.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 23, 2018
Raw hash: 34d3a9a4aabc0086c3372d7bc6efd5ccd40c2a51cddc74eb9a72798cf9e38f60

Reporting entityLewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, PLLC

Victim entityCortland Partners

Incidentdiscovered May 3, 2018

Stated responseConducted an investigation to determine the scope of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov