PhysicalFinancial ServicesFinanceTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

LaPorte & Associates, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 9, 2018

Filed

May 7, 2018

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for LaPorte & Associates, Inc. →

LaPorte & Associates, an insurance agency, notified the NH Attorney General of a security incident involving the theft of an agent's laptop on January 9, 2018. The incident potentially exposed the name and SSN of one NH resident. LaPorte engaged forensic investigators, secured accounts, and provided one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 118 days

Jan 9, 2018

Discovered

May 7, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+8 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Oregon State AGbd_aaebe9829b2999582018-05-14 · +7dCandidate

Name: BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP
norm: baker hostetler

Name: LaPorte & Associates, Inc.
norm: laporte associates
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 9, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 7, 2018
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General Gordon McDonald

During the incident: Secured the employee's email account
Took steps to prevent any remote access to LaPorte's systems
Began an investigation
Engaged a leading forensic firm
Conducted a thorough review of the employee's email account
Mailing notification letters via U.S. Mail
Established a call center
Providing one year of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Experian
Changes made: Added encryption to portable electronic devices
Prevented offline access to email accounts
Conducting additional training and education for its employees regarding portable electronic device security
Amending its email retention policies
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(118 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGMay 7 · first · this page

Oregon State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing May 7 (NH), last May 14 (OR) — a 7-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/laporte-20180507.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 7, 2018
Raw hash: 73347eccad546d9ee0fa3bcea53952e10c4232193db1536706db1c32f3e6445f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBAKER & HOSTETLER LLP

Victim entityLaPorte & Associates, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 9, 2018

Stated responseSecured the employee's email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov