HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumContained

Rudy Cecchi and Associates, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 31, 2017

Filed

Sep 20, 2017

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Rudy Cecchi and Associates, Inc. →

Rudy Cecchi and Associates, Inc. notified the NH Attorney General of a security incident where an unauthorized person accessed company email accounts starting July 28, 2017. The breach exposed names, addresses, SSNs, driver's license numbers, and some health/medical info. Notifications were sent to NH residents on Sept 20, 2017, offering one year of Experian credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 3 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 51 days

Jul 28, 2017

Begins

Jul 31, 2017

Discovered

Sep 20, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

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

Name: BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP
norm: baker hostetler

Name: Rudy Cecchi and Associates, Inc.
norm: rudy cecchi and associates
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 31, 2017
Breach occurred: Jul 28, 2017
Undetected for: 3 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 20, 2017
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberMedical information
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General Joseph Foster
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Secured the email accounts
Began an investigation
Conducted a thorough review of the compromised email accounts
Began sending written notifications to potentially affected New Hampshire residents via U.S. mail
Offering a complimentary one-year membership in credit monitoring and identity theft protection services from Experian
Changes made: Enhanced the security of its systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(51 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/cecchi-20170920.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 20, 2017
Raw hash: be9b0bd84b5a35cdda741b0bcb073b6c72b343aaae8da99a8af228a75022bbea

Reporting entityBAKER & HOSTETLER LLP

Victim entityRudy Cecchi and Associates, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jul 31, 2017

Stated responseSecured the email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov