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Acquis Consulting

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 12, 2018

Filed

Dec 20, 2018

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

67%

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Acquis Consulting Group L.L.C. notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a security incident affecting approximately one New Hampshire resident. An unauthorized actor accessed an employee email account, likely via phishing, to seek fraudulent wire transfers. Personal information including name, address, SSN, and health insurance details was accessed. The incident was remediated, and the individual was offered two years of credit monitoring via Experian.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 38 days

Nov 12, 2018

Discovered

Dec 20, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

9 wks faster

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

Name: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
norm: norton rose fulbright us

Name: Acquis Consulting
norm: acquis consulting
Domain: acquisconsulting.com
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 12, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 21, 2018
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Filed Legal Notice of Information Security Incident with the Office of the Attorney General, State of New Hampshire
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Engaged a cybersecurity and forensic firm
Engaged Experian to provide a complimentary two year membership of Experian’s® IdentityWorks
Notified the potentially affected New Hampshire resident via a mailed letter on December 21, 2018
Changes made: Continues to review its security measures, internal controls, and safeguards
Continues to make changes to help prevent a similar incident from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(38 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/acquis-consulting-20181220.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 20, 2018
Raw hash: 4a70dd90641f8d2309165a5e0491ffe95002dd399c35560bca6ae0b4ee58acc6

Reporting entityNorton Rose Fulbright US LLP

Victim entityAcquis Consulting

Incidentdiscovered Nov 12, 2018

Stated responseEngaged a cybersecurity and forensic firm

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov