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AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDMediumContained

Town of Andover

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 12, 2026

Filed

Aug 1, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for Town of Andover →2 incidents on file

The Town of North Andover inadvertently disclosed an individual's Social Security number in response to three public record requests via email on August 12, 2026. The Town Counsel immediately contacted the three recipients to request deletion of the emails and offered 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services. A notification was sent to the Massachusetts Attorney General Data Privacy and Security Division.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window not drawn

Aug 1, 2026

Filed

No interval is drawn: the breach start date on record falls after this filing's date.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

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.