HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Pinnacle Advisory Group, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 27, 2018

Filed

May 21, 2018

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Pinnacle Advisory Group, Inc. →

Pinnacle Advisory Group, Inc. notified the New Hampshire Attorney General on May 21, 2018, of a cybersecurity incident affecting approximately two New Hampshire residents. On March 27, 2018, an employee's email account was accessed without authorization. The incident potentially exposed names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, Taxpayer Identification numbers, and financial account numbers. Pinnacle disabled access, engaged a digital forensics firm, and provided 24 months of credit and identity monitoring services to affected residents.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 55 days

Mar 27, 2018

Discovered

May 21, 2018

Filed

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1 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_2f2bc7982c7ce42d2018-05-21Verified

Name: Pinnacle Advisory Group, Inc.
norm: pinnacle advisory

Name: Pinnacle Advisory Group, Inc.
norm: pinnacle advisory
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 27, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 21, 2018
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Disabled the unauthorized access
Launched an independent investigation
Engaged a digital forensics firm
Took additional measures to secure its clients’ and employees’ personal information
Changes made: Implemented a number of internal security features to further safeguard personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(55 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGMay 21 · first

New Hampshire State AGMay 21 · first · this page

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/pinnacle-advisory-20180521.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 21, 2018
Raw hash: 1ee8d0d94213cf9b9dec3bdbeb9a3e823fd15d378bfc396554b1c4d05d7e5e71

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPinnacle Advisory Group, Inc.

Victim entityPinnacle Advisory Group, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 27, 2018

Stated responseDisabled the unauthorized access

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov