MalwareFinancial ServicesTechnologyFinanceRansomwareData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

InFirst Bank

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 22, 2020

Filed

Dec 30, 2020

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

15state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for InFirst Bank →

American Bank Systems, Inc. (ABS) notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a cybersecurity incident affecting InFirst Bank customers. On October 22, 2020, ABS discovered suspicious activity involving malware encryption. The incident potentially exposed personal information, including names, SSNs, and financial account numbers, of approximately 15 New Hampshire residents. ABS took systems offline, engaged forensic investigators, and provided credit monitoring services to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 69 days

Oct 22, 2020

Discovered

Dec 30, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_188ea72141eb819b2020-12-18 · +12dVerified
Maine State AGbd_3e8ff1e62062f5952020-12-18 · +12dVerified by operator
Massachusetts State AGbd_87d8e992b12675e92020-12-18 · +12dVerified
Montana State AGbd_c699fb642cfa82b12020-12-04 · +26dCandidate

Name: American Bank Systems
norm: american bank

Name: InFirst Bank
norm: infirst bank
Industry: Financial ServicesllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Oct 22, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 4, 2020
Affected individuals: 15state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General Consumer Protection Bureau

During the incident: Took systems offline
Commenced an investigation
Working with third party investigators
Notified clients
Provided lists of potentially impacted individual customers to clients
Developed a communications plan to issue written notice to impacted individual customers
Offering complimentary access to twelve (12) months of credit and identity monitoring services through TransUnion
Provided contact information for a dedicated call center
Changes made: Resetting ABS user passwords
Reviewed existing security policies
Implemented additional measures, including advanced endpoint monitoring
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(69 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Montana State AGDec 4 · first

Indiana State AG+14d

Maine State AG+14d

Massachusetts State AG+14d

New Hampshire State AG+26d · this page

Pattern: first filing Dec 4 (MT), last Dec 30 (NH) — a 26-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/american-bank-systems-20201230.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 30, 2020
Raw hash: 471443d5c6d6b451e89d7eb9f7315a312ecb1a1d88a64466538de638fa9652ca

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAmerican Bank Systems

Victim entityInFirst Bank

Incidentdiscovered Oct 22, 2020

Stated responseTook systems offline

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov