MalwareProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesRansomwareNetWalkerData ExfiltratedData EncryptedRansom DemandedTargetedGovernment IDPIIMediumContained

New England Development

bd_ccb10cd3d061673f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 3, 2020

Filed

Nov 6, 2020

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

115state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for New England Development →

New England Development (NED), a real estate development and management company, notified the New Hampshire Attorney General on November 6, 2020, of a ransomware attack discovered on October 3, 2020. The attack involved the NetWalker ransomware group. Approximately 115 New Hampshire residents (current/former employees and contractors) were potentially affected. While the attacker was on the network for ~10 hours and exfiltrated 16 files, NED determined these did not contain PII. However, in an abundance of caution, NED is notifying individuals whose data (including SSNs) may have been on the network. NED engaged Coretelligent and Arete Advisors for forensic investigation, restored systems from backups, reported to the FBI, and offers 2 years of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 34 days

Oct 3, 2020

Discovered

Nov 6, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

14 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_0136971089ff31282020-11-06Verified
Maine State AGbd_24fc18e2d321c4d82020-11-06Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_be590b76b1db81822020-11-06Verified
Montana State AGbd_89c02262be36da962020-12-09 · +33dVerified

Name: Goulston & Storrs
norm: goulston storrs
Domain: goulstonstorrs.com

Name: New England Development
norm: new england development
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 3, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 115state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDPII
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: NetWalkerExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Reported the incident to the FBI

During the incident: Contacted Coretelligent, a provider of managed and co-managed IT, cybersecurity and cloud services, to begin incident response protocols, forensic investigation into the attack, and remediation and recovery efforts
Restored its network from backup servers that were not affected by the attack
Reported the incident to the FBI
Retained a second cybersecurity forensics firm, Arete Advisors, to communicate with the threat actor and to further investigate artifacts left following the attack
Offered each person complimentary credit monitoring services for a period of two (2) years
Changes made: Offered complimentary credit monitoring services for a period of two (2) years
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(34 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Indiana State AGNov 6 · first

Maine State AGNov 6 · first

Massachusetts State AGNov 6 · first

New Hampshire State AGNov 6 · first · this page

Montana State AG+33d

Pattern: first filing Nov 6 (IN), last Dec 9 (MT) — a 33-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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/new-england-development-20201106.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 6, 2020
Raw hash: 0135c0f2d1dc6dc0653ea909820655707432a466e5100055131a2a8c2ed39da0

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityGoulston & Storrs

Victim entityNew England Development

Incidentdiscovered Oct 3, 2020

Stated responseContacted Coretelligent, a provider of managed and co-managed IT, cybersecurity and cloud services, to begin incident response protocols, forensic investigation into the attack, and remediation and recovery efforts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov