MalwareFinancial ServicesFinanceRansomwareData EncryptedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Placemark Investments, Inc.

bd_cd40235c9b6c5961 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 1, 2014

Filed

May 23, 2014

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

7state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Placemark Investments, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Placemark Investments, Inc. notified the NH AG of a malware incident in early April 2014. The malware accessed a server, potentially exposing PII (names, SSNs, DOBs) of 7 NH residents. Notices were mailed late May 2014, offering 1 year of Experian credit monitoring. Placemark changed passwords and implemented additional security measures.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 52 days

Apr 1, 2014

Discovered

May 23, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_a9a9e0cc51fa799c2014-05-27 · +4dVerified

Name: Placemark Investments, Inc.
norm: placemark investments
Domain: placemark.com

Name: Placemark Investments, Inc.
norm: placemark investments
Domain: placemark.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Apr 1, 2014
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 27, 2014
Affected individuals: 7state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Security measures were taken immediately following the discovery of the malware to ensure that further unauthorized access would not occur, including changing the affected server’s passwords
Placemark is implementing additional security measures designed to prevent a recurrence of such an attack
Offering each potentially affected individual one year of free credit monitoring services from Experian
Changes made: Implementing additional security measures designed to prevent a recurrence of such an attack
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(52 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGMay 23 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+4d

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/placemark-investments-20140523.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 23, 2014
Raw hash: 4d191127c66290121909a1d5c7a51b1444db82c242a6f9a7779e03090237a753

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPlacemark Investments, Inc.

Victim entityPlacemark Investments, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Apr 1, 2014

Stated responseSecurity measures were taken immediately following the discovery of the malware to ensure that further unauthorized access would not occur, including changing the affected server’s passwords

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov