AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Town of Concord, Massachusetts

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 29, 2019

Filed

Feb 7, 2019

To disclose

9 days

Affected

3state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Town of Concord, Massachusetts →2 incidents on file

Town of Concord, MA inadvertently posted an internal police log containing PII (names, SSNs, DLs) on its website on Jan 28, 2019. Discovered Jan 29. 3 NH residents affected. Notices sent Feb 7, 2019, offering 12 months credit monitoring. Procedures revised to prevent recurrence.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 9 days

Jan 28, 2019

Begins

Jan 29, 2019

Discovered

Feb 7, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

10 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3 affectedView incident

Name: Town of Concord, Massachusetts
norm: town of concord massachusetts

Name: Town of Concord, Massachusetts
norm: town of concord massachusetts
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Jan 29, 2019
Breach occurred: Jan 28, 2019
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 7, 2019
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1535 Unused/Tracked Access Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General

During the incident: Removed the police log from the website
Requested that major search engines remove archived copies of the web page
Sent notification letters to potentially impacted individuals
Offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through TransUnion
Changes made: Reviewed and revised its log file creation and website posting procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 days(9 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/concord-massachusetts-20190207.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 7, 2019
Raw hash: feec6827a1e149fc9cc3bf5963a305985f7ceca2a63e1b936c6581b259ea05b2

Reporting entityTown of Concord, Massachusetts

Victim entityTown of Concord, Massachusetts

Incidentdiscovered Jan 29, 2019

Stated responseRemoved the police log from the website

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov