AccidentalFinancial ServicesTechnologyFinanceMisdeliveryPIIIdentity (basic)LowResolved

EQUIFAX INC.

bd_f3a67a87167655e9 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 6, 2017

Filed

Feb 8, 2017

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for EQUIFAX INC. →12 incidents on file

Equifax Consumer Services LLC notified the NH Attorney General of a data security incident affecting 1 NH resident. On Jan 6, 2017, LifeLock reported a member could view another's credit report. Equifax determined credit info for 158 LifeLock members was inadvertently sent to another member's portal due to a technical issue, not malicious activity. Notifications were mailed on Feb 8, 2017, and LifeLock subscriptions were extended for 12 months.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 33 days

Jan 6, 2017

Discovered

Feb 8, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

4 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_9cdb8e0b9b2f94832017-02-09 · +1dVerified

Name: EQUIFAX INC.
norm: equifax
Domain: equifax.com

Name: EQUIFAX INC.
norm: equifax
Domain: equifax.com
Industry: Financial ServicesllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Jan 6, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 8, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Misconfiguration

During the incident: Equifax and LifeLock immediately began taking steps to understand what occurred
Equifax and LifeLock investigated the technical issue
Equifax has partnered with LifeLock to extend the current LifeLock identity protection service subscriptions of the affected New Hampshire resident at no cost for twelve (12) months
Equifax will mail notifications to the one (1) New Hampshire resident
Changes made: Equifax and LifeLock worked together to ensure that it will not reoccur
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(33 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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New Hampshire State AGFeb 8 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

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/equifax-20170208.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 8, 2017
Raw hash: 0827f46648bc91239399fdb9aa91e63a0ad3d31a974a8888dbedcc6149050b61

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityEQUIFAX INC.

Victim entityEQUIFAX INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 6, 2017

Stated responseEquifax and LifeLock immediately began taking steps to understand what occurred

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov