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The Richards Group

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Feb 17, 2021

To disclose

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Affected

227state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

95%
Full breach record for The Richards Group →3 incidents on file

The Richards Group reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2021-02-17. 227 Massachusetts residents were affected. The report records the breach type as electronic.

Massachusetts clock✓ MA credit monitoring due
⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline — partial

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 17, 2021

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
HHS OCRJan 28 · first
Maine State AG+20d
Massachusetts State AG+20d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 28 (VT), last Feb 17 (MA) — a 20-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.