PhysicalHealthcareHealthcareLossEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

PFIZER INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 7, 2009

To disclose

—

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for PFIZER INC. →8 incidents on file

Pfizer Inc reported the inadvertent disposal of a backup hard drive containing the names and Social Security numbers of approximately 3 New Hampshire residents. The drive was discarded in trash on March 26, 2009, by an employee. Pfizer engaged forensic experts, notified affected individuals, and offered two years of credit monitoring and identity theft insurance. Remediation steps included limiting data on devices and encrypting laptops.

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Incident timeline

Mar 26, 2009

Begins

May 7, 2009

Filed

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_ecaeb4e5ec4b0d602009-05-11 · +4dVerified

Name: Pfizer Inc
norm: pfizer

Name: PFIZER INC.
norm: pfizer
Domain: pfizer.com
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Mar 26, 2009
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 8, 2009
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General of New Hampshire

During the incident: Retained forensic experts to conduct a review of the information believed to have been on the hard drive
Notifying affected individuals by mail
Arranged to provide all affected individuals with the opportunity to sign up for a full package of credit protection services and identity theft insurance for two years, at Pfizer's expense
Changes made: Limiting the amount of confidential data stored on electronic devices
Eliminating the use of Social Security numbers as identifiers
Encrypting laptops
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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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New Hampshire State AGMay 7 · first · this page

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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/pfizer-20090507.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 7, 2009
Raw hash: 641c8adb6ee86a4c3f71842347043f1677a700de73fcf97819686317dfaed683

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPfizer Inc

Victim entityPFIZER INC.

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseRetained forensic experts to conduct a review of the information believed to have been on the hard drive

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov