MisuseFinancial ServicesFinanceKnowledge AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

H & R BLOCK, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 21, 2016

Filed

May 16, 2016

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for H & R BLOCK, INC. →10 incidents on file

H&R Block notified New Hampshire AG of a potential data security incident involving up to 5 NH residents. A former Expat Tax Services employee copied client files (names, addresses, SSNs) to an external hard drive to start a competing business. The employee returned the data; no evidence of use was found. Forensic investigation and legal action were initiated.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 116 days

Jan 21, 2016

Discovered

May 16, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

+8 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5 affectedView incident

Name: H & R BLOCK, INC.
norm: h r block
Domain: hrblock.com

Name: H & R BLOCK, INC.
norm: h r block
Domain: hrblock.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 21, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 16, 2016
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Forensic investigation of the former employee’s electronic devices
Initiating legal action on February 1, 2016
Contacted the former employee regarding continuing obligations
Reviewed and updated internal procedures
Changes made: Reviewed and updated internal procedures to reduce the possibility of any similar occurrences in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(116 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/h-r-block-20160516.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 16, 2016
Raw hash: cb0e1db56b0c8aab7e4aefa7852cbfead15f65e07c48c5075dce8d88e102e48b

Reporting entityH & R BLOCK, INC.

Victim entityH & R BLOCK, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 21, 2016

Stated responseForensic investigation of the former employee’s electronic devices

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov