MisuseRetail & ConsumerRetailPrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

Valpak Works

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 14, 2012

Filed

Dec 14, 2012

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

20state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Valpak Works →2 incidents on file

Valpak notified the New Hampshire Attorney General on Dec 14, 2012, that a temporary independent contractor indicted for mail fraud possessed a file containing employee names, SSNs, and employment dates. Valpak is notifying ~20 NH residents and offering one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Nov 14, 2012

Discovered

Dec 14, 2012

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed20 affectedView incident

Name: Valpak Works
norm: valpak works
Domain: valpakworks.com

Name: Valpak Works
norm: valpak works
Domain: valpakworks.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Nov 14, 2012
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 14, 2012
Affected individuals: 20state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified United States Postal Inspection Services (USPS)
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Arranged for individuals to enroll in a complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection service for one year provided by ConsumerInfo.com, Inc. an Experian company
Conducting a comprehensive internal review of its practices and procedures to prevent this from reoccurring
Changes made: Conducting a comprehensive internal review of its practices and procedures to prevent this from reoccurring
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(30 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/valpak-20121214.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 14, 2012
Raw hash: 766bb917dac22f21b09bb65ec5df2294da92733529b958d3f5d08edd5101313a

Reporting entityValpak Works

Victim entityValpak Works

Incidentdiscovered Nov 14, 2012

Stated responseArranged for individuals to enroll in a complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection service for one year provided by ConsumerInfo.com, Inc. an Experian company

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov