AccidentalProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Howe Riley & Howe PLLC

bd_fee093976f514eeb · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 2, 2015

Filed

Apr 8, 2015

To disclose

6 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Howe Riley & Howe PLLC →

Howe Riley & Howe PLLC inadvertently disclosed personal information (name, address, phone, email, SSN) of one New Hampshire client by entering it onto a website believed to be affiliated with the IRS. The firm notified the client immediately, confirmed the data was discarded by the website operator, and offered three years of credit monitoring. Employee education on secure data handling was implemented as remediation.

J jump to incidentP pin to compareR raw source

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 days

Apr 2, 2015

Begins

Apr 2, 2015

Discovered

Apr 8, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

18 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Howe Riley & Howe PLLC
norm: howe riley howe
Domain: www.hrhcpa.com

Name: Howe Riley & Howe PLLC
norm: howe riley howe
Domain: www.hrhcpa.com
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Apr 2, 2015
Breach occurred: Apr 2, 2015
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 2, 2015
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unknown
Regulator citations: Notified the Office of the Attorney General of New Hampshire

During the incident: Notified the affected individual immediately by phone on April 2, 2015
Notified the affected individual in person on April 8, 2015
Offering the affected individual three years of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Experian
Contacted the company that runs the website and received written confirmation that the information will be discarded
Changes made: Enforce education with their employees about the importance of securely handling personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 days(6 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/howe-riley-howe-20150408.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 8, 2015
Raw hash: 1b9074289d36f4e88f86d5e70de91ac31a20c121e08f9b96eb74f6a0b7c8eff6

Reporting entityHowe Riley & Howe PLLC

Victim entityHowe Riley & Howe PLLC

Incidentdiscovered Apr 2, 2015

Stated responseNotified the affected individual immediately by phone on April 2, 2015

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov