MalwareRansomwareData EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHighContained
Employment Specialists of Maine, Inc.
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Full breach record for Employment Specialists of Maine, Inc. →Employment Specialists of Maine, Inc. experienced a ransomware attack on its server. The attackers encrypted data and demanded a ransom, which was not paid. The company was able to restore its data from backups. While there is no evidence that data was exfiltrated, the company is notifying affected individuals out of an abundance of caution. The breach potentially exposed names and driver's license numbers.
Maine clockDiscovered Nov 2, 2020 → Filed with AG Dec 9, 202037d ⏱ ME AG >30d5 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_951c713c8dc32be5Maine State AGfiled 2020-12-09Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318/efb0619a-6fe4-4fe6-9323-fc7e896ce69d.shtml
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Dec 9, 2020
- Raw hash
- 2602a678e1dc30f87bc87851930cd04b172bc539e96e437026c21ad9194b87d8
Reporting entity
- Name
- Employment Specialists of Maine, Inc.norm: employment specialists of maine
Victim entity
- Name
- Employment Specialists of Maine, Inc.norm: employment specialists of maine
Incident
- Discovered
- Nov 2, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Dec 9, 2020
- Affected individuals
- 3,000
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Ransomware
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 5 weeks(37 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- ME AG >30d · 37d
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status Maine Discovered: Nov 2, 2020→ Filed with AG: Dec 9, 202037d 30 days (soft) ME AG >30d
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.