Social EngineeringIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Steppingstone Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 27, 2026

Filed

Jul 16, 2026

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Steppingstone Inc. →

Steppingstone, Inc. notified Massachusetts residents that on May 27, 2026, an unauthorized individual compromised an agency email account. The incident potentially exposed names, dates of birth, and driver's license numbers. The company secured the account and initiated an investigation.

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Massachusetts clock⏱ MA AG >30d7 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 50 days

May 27, 2026

Discovered

Jul 16, 2026

Filed

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

Name: Steppingstone Inc.
norm: steppingstone
Domain: steppingstoneinc.org

Name: Steppingstone Inc.
norm: steppingstone
Domain: steppingstoneinc.org

Discovered: May 27, 2026
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 14, 2026
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured your email account
Initiated an investigation
Assessed the scope of the potential exposure
Changes made: Taken appropriate steps to strengthen the security of our systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(50 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MA AG >30d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

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://www.mass.gov/doc/2026-1149-steppingstone-inc/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 16, 2026
Raw hash: 0718fbeaa010daf4da69540c7bf5e809698266fa5fe72939a397b141a6dc38f2

Reporting entitySteppingstone Inc.

Victim entitySteppingstone Inc.

Incidentdiscovered May 27, 2026

Stated responseSecured your email account

ComplianceMA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov