AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisconfigurationData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIMediumContained

Teall Acquisitions, LLC

bd_b935819b84a23479 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 28, 2018

Filed

Dec 18, 2018

To disclose

20 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Teall Acquisitions, LLC →

Teall Acquisitions, LLC notified NH AG of a breach affecting 1 resident. A vendor's unsecured backup storage exposed PII (SSN, address, W-9) via search engines. Discovered Nov 28, 2018. Vendor restricted access Dec 2, 2018. Notifications sent Dec 21, 2018, including 1-year Experian Identity Works.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 20 days

Nov 28, 2018

Discovered

Dec 18, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

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

Name: KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP
norm: kilpatrick townsend stockton

Name: Teall Acquisitions, LLC
norm: teall acquisitions
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 28, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 21, 2018
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Worked rapidly with the vendor to investigate and address the situation
Vendor took appropriate steps to restrict access to the data
Offering notified individuals a complimentary one-year membership in Experian’s Identity Works product
Changes made: Stopped collecting W-9 forms through the vendor
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 days(20 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/teall-acquisitions-20181220.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 18, 2018
Raw hash: 07a5f9749b95ece785557e697a3db09c6d46f8213d05128528aa6ea9e0a540db

Reporting entityKILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP

Victim entityTeall Acquisitions, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Nov 28, 2018

Stated responseWorked rapidly with the vendor to investigate and address the situation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov