AccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

Wellfleet Group, LLC

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 1, 2024

Filed

Oct 11, 2024

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Wellfleet Group, LLC →

Wellfleet Group, LLC experienced a data security incident due to a website misconfiguration that allowed medical referral pages to be indexed by search engines without authentication. This exposed protected health information (PHI) including names, addresses, dates of birth, and diagnosis codes for students. The issue was discovered on August 1, 2024, and immediately contained by disabling the misconfiguration and removing indexed pages. No malicious cyber activity was involved. Affected individuals were offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 71 days

Aug 1, 2024

Discovered

Oct 11, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Vermont State AGbd_702c49853db45dd82024-10-11Verified
Montana State AGbd_b3b97e27a29f8c612024-10-11Verified
HHS OCRbd_79666de62511cf322024-10-08 · +3dVerified
California State AGbd_13dbd31fe1337ade2024-11-11 · +31dVerified

Name: Wellfleet Group, LLC
norm: wellfleet group

Name: Wellfleet Group, LLC
norm: wellfleet group
Industry: HealthcarellmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 1, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 11, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Misconfiguration

During the incident: Disabled the misconfiguration
Removed or blocked public access to all Publicly Accessible Referrals
Engaged leading third-party experts to investigate the scope of and remediate the problem
Conducted a thorough review of that data to identify what information was involved and identify individuals to whom the data related
Started a full review and evaluation of the Website to ensure that there were no other problems or misconfigurations
Updated and reset data security controls for the Website
Changes made: Revamping our standard review and technical support of all applications and software development processes to help prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future
Offering complimentary credit monitoring and fraud prevention services through Experian Identity Works for 24 months
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(71 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 · 4 states

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HHS OCROct 8 · first

Vermont State AG+3d

Montana State AG+3d

California State AG+3d · this page

California State AG+34d

Pattern: first filing Oct 8 (MA), last Nov 11 (CA) — a 34-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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-593295
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 11, 2024
Raw hash: 3b4e17f486977c11faeb7aff6a69ea0d59b038b236150b1d8dbab0a33d149840

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWellfleet Group, LLC

Victim entityWellfleet Group, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Aug 1, 2024

Stated responseDisabled the misconfiguration

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov