HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIPHIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Welts, White & Fontaine, P.C.

bd_d571873127f0b0b4 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 8, 2025

Filed

Jan 27, 2025

To disclose

19 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Welts, White & Fontaine, P.C. →3 incidents on file

Welts, White & Fontaine, P.C. notified the NH Attorney General that an unauthorized actor may have accessed its network and copied files from a file server on or around January 8, 2025. The firm contains the incident and alerted law enforcement. Potential PII and PHI were involved. No specific count of affected individuals was disclosed; substitute notice and credit monitoring were offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 19 days

Jan 8, 2025

Discovered

Jan 27, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

17 wks faster

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

Name: Welts, White & Fontaine, P.C.
norm: welts white fontaine

Name: Welts, White & Fontaine, P.C.
norm: welts white fontaine
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 8, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 24, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIPHIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General

During the incident: Launched an investigation in consultation with outside cybersecurity professionals
Proactively took systems offline out of an abundance of caution
Alerted law enforcement
Changes made: Offering any potentially affected residents complimentary one-year memberships with a credit monitoring service
Advising any potentially affected residents about the process for placing fraud alerts and/or security freezes on their credit files
Continually evaluates and modifies its practices and internal controls to enhance the security and privacy of personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 19 days(19 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/welts-white-fontaine-20250127.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 27, 2025
Raw hash: 2e3cf9b446ae5eea2344787f2d91a72bcb849b99964e0be19fb12d31f36e63fd

Reporting entityWelts, White & Fontaine, P.C.

Victim entityWelts, White & Fontaine, P.C.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 8, 2025

Stated responseLaunched an investigation in consultation with outside cybersecurity professionals

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov