HackingTelecom & MediaInformationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Vice Media LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 29, 2022

Filed

Jan 30, 2023

To disclose

44 weeks

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Vice Media LLC →

Vice Media LLC notified the NH Attorney General that personal information of 4 NH residents may have been accessed via an internal email account between March 29 and April 4, 2022. The incident involved unauthorized access to an internal Vice email account, potentially exposing names and Social Security numbers. Vice secured its network, engaged cybersecurity firms, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 44 weeks / 307 days

Mar 29, 2022

Begins

Mar 29, 2022

Discovered

Jan 30, 2023

Filed

This filing is one of 6 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_48cfa3cd9321ba1f2023-01-30Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_9c79df653fb015fb2023-01-30Verified
Vermont State AGbd_cdebd65264b50e1b2023-01-30Verified
Maine State AGbd_3a03ab45feca58c62023-01-31 · +1dVerified

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Maine State AGbd_c357a0587ab446692023-01-26 · +4dCandidate

Name: Vice Media LLC
norm: vice media
Domain: vice.com

Name: Vice Media LLC
norm: vice media
Domain: vice.com
Industry: Telecom & Mediallm

Discovered: Mar 29, 2022
Breach occurred: Mar 29, 2022 – Apr 4, 2022
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 30, 2023
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Department of Justice
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Took steps to secure its network
Engaged leading cybersecurity firms to conduct an investigation
Implemented additional security measures to reduce the risk of a similar incident occurring in the future
Changes made: Offering twelve (12) months of credit monitoring and identity protection services through Equifax
Providing identity restoration services and up to $1,000,000 identity theft insurance through Equifax
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 44 weeks(307 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

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Maine State AGJan 26 · first

Indiana State AG+4d

Massachusetts State AG+4d

Vermont State AG+4d

New Hampshire State AG+4d · this page

Maine State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Jan 26 (ME), last Jan 31 (ME) — a 5-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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/vice-media-20230130.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 30, 2023
Raw hash: 2cc05e7e78cbd1ec3f89067dfc0786e3d72c69f2916c2395079f11d8309bb17b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityVice Media LLC

Victim entityVice Media LLC

Incidentdiscovered Mar 29, 2022

Stated responseTook steps to secure its network

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov