HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

Adopt A Highway Maintenance Corporation

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Oct 25, 2018

Filed

Dec 3, 2018

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

12state residents only

Confidence

67%

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Adopt A Highway Maintenance Corporation notified NH AG of unauthorized access to email accounts on Oct 25, 2018, resulting in fraudulent credit card charges. 12 NH residents notified. Data accessed included names, contact info, and financial account details. Remediation included password resets, MFA implementation, and IP filtering.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 39 days

Oct 25, 2018

Discovered

Dec 3, 2018

Filed

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9 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed12 affectedView incident

Name: Adopt A Highway Maintenance Corporation
norm: adopt a highway maintenance
Domain: adoptahighway.com

Name: Adopt A Highway Maintenance Corporation
norm: adopt a highway maintenance
Domain: adoptahighway.com
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 25, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 6, 2017
Affected individuals: 12state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General Gordon MacDonald of New Hampshire
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Reimbursed the affected accounts or otherwise stopped the fraudulent charges from being effectuated
Notified the affected accounts of the security breach
Conducted a detailed review of all the potentially affected accounts
Examined and removed all potentially affected e-mail accounts
Issued new network/e-mail passwords for those accounts
Notified local and federal authorities about the incident
Changes made: Implementing multi-factor authentication
Implementing IP address filtering and restriction by location
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(39 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/adopt-a-highway-20181203.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 3, 2018
Raw hash: 94e0be4ff7a1421535c127e9bea00f1aaa325f10ef97376cbbe42295d7422836

Reporting entityAdopt A Highway Maintenance Corporation

Victim entityAdopt A Highway Maintenance Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Oct 25, 2018

Stated responseReimbursed the affected accounts or otherwise stopped the fraudulent charges from being effectuated

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov