AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Developers Diversified Realty Corporation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 2, 2009

Filed

Feb 27, 2009

To disclose

25 days

Affected

46state residents only

Confidence

67%

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Developers Diversified Realty Corp (DDR) reported that its dividend agent, National City Bank, inadvertently misdelivered 1099-DIV tax forms to approximately 46 New Hampshire shareholders in January 2009. The error exposed names, addresses, SSNs, and dividend info. DDR notified affected individuals and offered one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 25 days

Feb 2, 2009

Discovered

Feb 27, 2009

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed46 affectedView incident

Name: Developers Diversified Realty Corporation
norm: developers diversified realty

Name: Developers Diversified Realty Corporation
norm: developers diversified realty
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 2, 2009
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 2, 2009
Affected individuals: 46state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Third party: via National City Bank

During the incident: Began investigating to determine if they could specifically identify the individuals whose 1099-DIV forms were misdelivered
Notifying all potentially affected individuals, ie., everyone who was sent a 1099-DIV form, via written letter to each through first class mail
Offering those who did not receive the initial mailing the opportunity to enroll in a free credit monitoring service for one year
Changes made: Taking steps to prevent a similar occurrence
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 25 days(25 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/developers-diversified-20090227.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 27, 2009
Raw hash: c242c74aa214f7ea9a3fbfa23507febf583e0446b16a02abd8fa73d5278615a8

Reporting entityDevelopers Diversified Realty Corporation

Victim entityDevelopers Diversified Realty Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Feb 2, 2009

Stated responseBegan investigating to determine if they could specifically identify the individuals whose 1099-DIV forms were misdelivered

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov