Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)CredentialsMediumContained

Concorde Investment Partners, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 14, 2020

Filed

Jun 19, 2020

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

45state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Concorde Investment Partners, LLC →5 incidents on file

Concorde Investment Services, LLC notified the NH Attorney General that an email phishing attack compromised employee accounts accessed between Sept-Nov 2019. Discovered May 14, 2020. ~45 NH residents affected. Data included names, SSNs, driver's licenses, financial account info, DOBs, passport numbers, medical info, and usernames/passwords. No evidence of misuse. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 240 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 36 days

Sep 17, 2019

Begins

May 14, 2020

Discovered

Jun 19, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_0abcf74a7ef6dc5f2020-06-20 · +1dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_46f183bdf03adb402020-06-20 · +1dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_64e695151665f4592020-06-12 · +7dVerified

Name: MCDONALD HOPKINS LLC
norm: mcdonald hopkins

Name: Concorde Investment Partners, LLC
norm: concorde investment
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 14, 2020
Breach occurred: Sep 17, 2019 – Nov 4, 2019
Undetected for: 240 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 12, 2020
Affected individuals: 45state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)Credentials
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General Gordon MacDonald
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the compromised accounts
Commenced a prompt and thorough investigation
Working very closely with external cybersecurity professionals
Conducted an extensive forensic investigation and manual email review
Changes made: Offering the affected residents with Social Security numbers impacted complimentary one-year memberships with a credit monitoring service
Advising affected residents about the process for placing fraud alerts and/or security freezes on their credit files
Advising affected residents to contact their financial institutions to inquire about steps to take to protect their accounts
Providing contact information for the consumer reporting agencies and the Federal Trade Commission
Providing steps to take to safeguard themselves against medical identity theft
Advising affected residents to change their account passwords for the affected accounts
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(36 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Indiana State AGJun 12 · first

New Hampshire State AG+7d · this page

California State AG+8d

Massachusetts State AG+8d

Pattern: first filing Jun 12 (IN), last Jun 20 (MA) — a 8-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/concorde-investment-services-20200622.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 19, 2020
Raw hash: ebf25a498691ef3374658831251a2db34df64ce7c914a163b181d064fefa0286

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMCDONALD HOPKINS LLC

Victim entityConcorde Investment Partners, LLC

Incidentdiscovered May 14, 2020

Stated responseSecured the compromised accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov