HackingTechnologyInformationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

Complete Payroll Solutions

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Severity

High

Discovered

Mar 10, 2024

Filed

Jun 5, 2025

To disclose

15 months

Affected

29,734state residents only

Linked

12 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Complete Payroll Solutions →2 incidents on file

Complete Payroll Solutions, LLC (CPS) issued a supplemental notice to the Rhode Island Attorney General on May 28, 2025, regarding a data event discovered on March 10, 2024. An unauthorized individual accessed CPS systems, compromising names, Social Security numbers, and financial account information of 29,734 Rhode Island residents. CPS notified law enforcement, reset passwords, and provided 12 months of credit monitoring via Kroll.

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Leak gap clock✗ Leak >180d15 months discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 15 months / 452 days

Mar 10, 2024

Begins

Mar 10, 2024

Discovered

Jun 5, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+54 wks slower

This filing is one of 12 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by meow about this victim was first seen 283 days before this filing.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_5fdc02e392c3d7f22025-05-28 · +8dVerified by operator
California State AGbd_956ff6e14c25a6de2025-05-09 · +27dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_ec79e79d850b180e2025-05-01 · +35dVerified by operator
Rhode Island State AGbd_6e71a10afc6c98522025-04-29 · +37dVerified by operator

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 41d gap

Montana State AGbd_8098ebc1bce71e1c2025-04-25 · +41dVerified by operator
California State AGbd_a438c7e68790c1822025-04-25 · +41dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_b49242977c3bd20e2025-04-25 · +41dVerified by operator
New Hampshire State AGbd_c06fe742fa3958402025-04-25 · +41dVerified by operator
Nebraska State AGbd_e3913e26a0fdb2cc2025-04-25 · +41dVerified by operator
Vermont State AGbd_f99beb53f694dace2025-04-25 · +41dVerified by operator

Showing first 10 of 11 linked disclosures.

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: Complete Payroll Solutions
norm: complete payroll
Domain: completepayrollsolutions.com
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Mar 10, 2024
Breach occurred: Mar 10, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 25, 2025
Affected individuals: 29,734state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Provided written notice of this incident to relevant state regulators
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Launched an investigation into the nature and scope of this event
Conducted a thorough investigation and review of the impacted files
Notified its affected customers
Notified federal law enforcement regarding the event
Reset system passwords
Added extra layers of security
Provided access to credit monitoring services for twelve (12) months, through Kroll
Changes made: Working to implement additional safeguards and training to its employees
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 months(452 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: Leak >180d
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 8 states

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Montana State AGApr 25 · first

California State AGApr 25 · first

Indiana State AGApr 25 · first

New Hampshire State AGApr 25 · first

Nebraska State AGApr 25 · first

Vermont State AGApr 25 · first

Rhode Island State AG+4d

Illinois State AG+6d

California State AG+14d

New Hampshire State AG+33d

Rhode Island State AG+41d · this page

Pattern: first filing Apr 25 (MT), last Jun 5 (RI) — a 41-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 11 — the full spread may be wider.

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://riag.ri.gov/media/7486/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 5, 2025
Raw hash: faa62669c687287379b5f3e2767cd294174e3e85ba560153da8b1b99447ee344

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityComplete Payroll Solutions

Incidentdiscovered Mar 10, 2024

Stated responseLaunched an investigation into the nature and scope of this event

ComplianceLeak >180d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceriag.ri.gov