HackingGovernmentGovernmentStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Health Authority for the City of Huntsville

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 8, 2018

Filed

Nov 9, 2018

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Health Authority for the City of Huntsville →

Health Authority for the City of Huntsville notified the NH AG of a breach at vendor Jobscience, Inc. affecting 5 NH residents. Unauthorized access in May 2018 exposed PII including SSNs and driver's licenses. Notices sent Nov 8, 2018; credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 160 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 32 days

May 1, 2018

Begins

Oct 8, 2018

Discovered

Nov 9, 2018

Filed

Part of JobScience supply-chain incident (2018) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5 affectedView incident

Name: Health Authority for the City of Huntsville
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Name: Health Authority for the City of Huntsville
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Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Oct 8, 2018
Breach occurred: May 1, 2018 – May 31, 2018
Undetected for: 160 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 8, 2018
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General Joseph Foster
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Notifying five (5) New Hampshire residents via U.S. mail
Offering one year of complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services to all New Hampshire residents whose Social Security number was involved
Established a dedicated call center to answer questions
No longer doing business with Jobscience, Inc.
Changes made: Jobscience, Inc. taking steps to enhance its security, such as forcing password resets
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(32 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/huntsville-20181109.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 9, 2018
Raw hash: 0d8bf3b372e3d41173894da5559771bf1785450bd552e726a639d35f7234c71d

Reporting entityHealth Authority for the City of Huntsville

Victim entityHealth Authority for the City of Huntsville

Incidentdiscovered Oct 8, 2018

Stated responseNotifying five (5) New Hampshire residents via U.S. mail

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov