UnknownFinancial ServicesFinanceGovernment IDFinancial accountMedium

Affordable Payroll, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Aug 20, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

121state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Affordable Payroll, Inc. →

Affordable Payroll, Inc. reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2024-08-20. 121 Massachusetts residents were affected.

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Massachusetts clock✓ MA credit monitoring due

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Aug 20, 2024

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_ae77246872ba5e8e2024-08-26 · +6dCandidate

Name: Affordable Payroll, Inc.
norm: affordable payroll

Name: Affordable Payroll, Inc.
norm: affordable payroll
Industry: Financial Servicesregulator portal

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 121state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberFinancial account number
Stated not affected: Medical informationDriver's licence numberPayment card number
The filing states these were not involved. Categories absent from both lists were not addressed either way.
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: External

Compliance flags: MA credit monitoring due
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGAug 20 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Aug 20 (MA), last Aug 26 (NH) — a 6-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://www.mass.gov/doc/data-breach-report-2024/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 20, 2024
Raw hash: 5848a227ac5f1d36d04bd3f721cd7e764769fecff3e79c32ac519e70c5e6c0a8

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAffordable Payroll, Inc.

Victim entityAffordable Payroll, Inc.

IncidentUnknown

ComplianceMA credit monitoring due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov