Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesHealthcareProfessional ServicesPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

The Affiliated Group

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 28, 2018

Filed

Sep 27, 2018

To disclose

26 weeks

Affected

31state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for The Affiliated Group →

The Affiliated Group (TAG) notified the NH AG of a phishing incident resulting in unauthorized access to an employee email account. The actor sent phishing emails to harvest credentials. The account contained PHI and PII (SSN, medical record numbers, financial account info) of approximately 31 NH residents. TAG disabled the account, engaged forensic investigators, and provided 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 147 days

discovery → filing · 26 weeks / 183 days

Nov 1, 2017

Begins

Mar 28, 2018

Discovered

Sep 27, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+8 wks slower

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_d7bfbdef63373e432018-09-19 · +8dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_d8c2bc646745bfb92018-09-19 · +8dVerified
Montana State AGbd_a54d25ade4e6dc582018-09-18 · +9dCandidate

Name: The Affiliated Group
norm: the affiliated

Name: The Affiliated Group
norm: the affiliated
Industry: Professional ServicesllmHealthcarellm

Discovered: Mar 28, 2018
Breach occurred: Nov 1, 2017 – Mar 28, 2018
Undetected for: 147 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 19, 2018
Affected individuals: 31state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
Data elements: Social Security numberMedical information
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Immediately disabled the account and reset all account passwords
Worked with third-party forensic investigators to determine what happened
Undertook a programmatic and manual review of the contents of the account
Providing individuals with complimentary access to twelve (12) months of identity theft protection and mitigation services through TransUnion
Changes made: Taken steps to further increase our security awareness to reduce the likelihood of a similar event from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 weeks(183 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Montana State AGSep 18 · first

California State AG+1d

Massachusetts State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+9d · this page

Pattern: first filing Sep 18 (MT), last Sep 27 (NH) — a 9-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/the-affiliated-group-20180927.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 27, 2018
Raw hash: b03b04fe8bd83fb2fc90cea7d02b5aaa72a91a051cb20a543287f1feaf110cfe

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThe Affiliated Group

Victim entityThe Affiliated Group

Incidentdiscovered Mar 28, 2018

Stated responseImmediately disabled the account and reset all account passwords

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov