HackingEducationProfessional ServicesEducationData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Pharmacy Times Office of Continuing Professional Education, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 6, 2018

Filed

Feb 6, 2019

To disclose

31 weeks

Affected

129state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Pharmacy Times Office of Continuing Professional Education, LLC →

Supplemental notice for Pharmacy Times Office of Continuing Professional Education, LLC regarding unauthorized access to a publicly available file containing client PII (names, SSNs). Incident occurred May-July 2018; discovered July 6, 2018. 129 NH residents affected. Remediation includes credit monitoring via Kroll and enhanced safeguards.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 56 days

discovery → filing · 31 weeks / 215 days

May 11, 2018

Begins

Jul 6, 2018

Discovered

Feb 6, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+22 wks slower

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

Montana State AGbd_41994e74a3d0a96c2019-02-06Verified
California State AGbd_61c59abe6c8162592018-11-26 · +72dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_aeb69775153a7b892018-11-19 · +79dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_5a13493eb8231c712018-11-13 · +85dCandidate

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Washington State AGbd_62074ff78d72913f2018-11-13 · +85dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_ee8911aec0566b682018-11-13 · +85dVerified

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: Pharmacy Times Office of Continuing Professional Education, LLC
norm: pharmacy times office of continuing professional education
Industry: EducationllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 6, 2018
Breach occurred: May 11, 2018 – Jul 6, 2018
Undetected for: 56 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 13, 2018
Affected individuals: 129state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1074 Data Staged
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Worked with third-party forensic investigators
Removed the file from the web server
Began providing written notice of this incident to affected individuals
Providing written notice of this incident to other state regulators
Changes made: Implementing additional safeguards to protect the security of information in its system
Reviewing existing policies and procedures
Offering complimentary access to one year of credit and identity monitoring services and identity restoration services through Kroll
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 31 weeks(215 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 · 6 states

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Oregon State AGNov 13 · first

Washington State AGNov 13 · first

Massachusetts State AGNov 13 · first

New Hampshire State AG+6d

California State AG+13d

Montana State AG+85d

New Hampshire State AG+85d · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 13 (OR), last Feb 6 (NH) — a 85-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/pharmacy-times-20190206.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 6, 2019
Raw hash: 25f66ba284afc7bf5083d618d534e5b4f3006f7b8344468ed7d6e3059b3dcbdf

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityPharmacy Times Office of Continuing Professional Education, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Jul 6, 2018

Stated responseWorked with third-party forensic investigators

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov