MalwareFinancial ServicesProfessional ServicesFinanceRansomwareData MishandlingSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPIIMediumContained

Nations Lending Corporation

bd_e2696dac7aae5a0d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 5, 2021

Filed

Sep 24, 2021

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

72state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Nations Lending Corporation →3 incidents on file

Nations Lending Corporation notified NH AG of a ransomware attack on third-party vendor Timios, Inc. in late July 2021. The incident affected 72 NH residents, exposing PII, SSNs, and financial data. Nations Lending suspended transactions with Timios and provided 1 year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 11 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 50 days

Jul 25, 2021

Begins

Aug 5, 2021

Discovered

Sep 24, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_55ec90ef9e89514d2021-09-19 · +5dVerified
Maine State AGbd_df6458561cded4042021-09-19 · +5dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_a6ddca811e14d6b32021-10-01 · +7dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_3fa870010c2706e12021-09-13 · +11dVerified

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 14d gap

Indiana State AGbd_56beadfa687f094c2021-10-08 · +14dVerified
California State AGbd_3e3daf05fdd140042021-09-10 · +14dCandidate

Name: Nations Lending Corporation
norm: nations lending
Domain: nationslending.com
Industry: financial_services

Name: Nations Lending Corporation
norm: nations lending
Industry: Financial ServicesllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 5, 2021
Breach occurred: Jul 25, 2021
Undetected for: 11 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 14, 2021
Affected individuals: 72state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPII
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Department of Justice
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Suspended any further transactions with Timios
Moved pending closings to our other service providers
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost to the customer for one year
Changes made: Requiring review of their data storage policies to minimize how long a customer’s information remains in their systems
Vendor must pass a complete cybersecurity evaluation before resuming business transactions
Vendor must demonstrate that their systems and personnel are hardened against any further attacks
Vendor is reviewing its security practices and controls and upgrading their security systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(50 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 5 states

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California State AGSep 10 · first

Indiana State AG+3d

Massachusetts State AG+9d

Maine State AG+9d

New Hampshire State AG+14d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+21d

Indiana State AG+28d

Pattern: first filing Sep 10 (CA), last Oct 8 (IN) — a 28-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/nations-lending-20210924.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 24, 2021
Raw hash: d10b3d4aa309e33bf0351f56643f8c07a64bfbdea5a5f6733678face1c2c5412

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNations Lending Corporation

Victim entityNations Lending Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Aug 5, 2021

Stated responseSuspended any further transactions with Timios

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov