On June 6, 2025, the Maine Attorney General’s Office disclosed a data breach at Nationwide Recovery Services, Inc. (NRS), occurring between July 5–11, 2024. The incident exposed the personal information of 208 Maine residents, including names and Social Security numbers (SSNs), following suspicious network activity that triggered a system outage.The breach was identified after unauthorized access was detected, though the exact method (e.g., phishing, exploitation of vulnerabilities) was not specified. NRS responded by offering one year of credit monitoring and identity theft protection via IDX to affected individuals. The compromised data primarily SSNs and personally identifiable information (PII) poses a high risk of identity theft, financial fraud, and long-term reputational harm to victims. While the breach did not involve ransomware or a large-scale data dump, the exposure of SSNs (a critical identifier for financial and governmental authentication) elevates the severity due to the potential for sustained fraudulent activity against the impacted individuals. The incident also highlights vulnerabilities in NRS’s network security and incident response protocols, as the breach went undetected for nearly a year before public disclosure.
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"linkid": "nationwide-recovery-systems",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "7/2024",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 208,
'industry': 'Debt Collection / Financial Services',
'location': 'United States (specific location '
'unspecified)',
'name': 'Nationwide Recovery Services, Inc. (NRS)',
'type': 'Corporation'},
{'location': 'Maine, USA',
'name': 'Maine Residents (Affected Individuals)',
'type': 'Individuals'}],
'customer_advisories': 'One year of credit monitoring and identity theft '
'protection services offered to affected individuals '
'via IDX',
'data_breach': {'data_exfiltration': 'Likely (data accessed during breach)',
'number_of_records_exposed': 208,
'personally_identifiable_information': ['Names',
'Social Security '
'numbers'],
'sensitivity_of_data': 'High (includes Social Security '
'numbers)',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['Personally Identifiable '
'Information (PII)']},
'date_detected': '2024-07-11',
'date_publicly_disclosed': '2025-06-06',
'description': "On June 6, 2025, the Maine Attorney General's Office reported "
'a data breach involving Nationwide Recovery Services, Inc. '
'(NRS) that occurred between July 5, 2024, and July 11, 2024. '
'The breach potentially affected the personal information of '
'208 Maine residents, including names and Social Security '
'numbers, and was discovered following suspicious activity '
'that led to a network outage. NRS offered one year of credit '
'monitoring and identity theft protection services through IDX '
'to the affected individuals.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Names', 'Social Security numbers'],
'downtime': 'Network outage (duration unspecified)',
'identity_theft_risk': 'High (PII exposed)'},
'references': [{'date_accessed': '2025-06-06',
'source': "Maine Attorney General's Office"}],
'regulatory_compliance': {'regulatory_notifications': 'Maine Attorney '
"General's Office"},
'response': {'communication_strategy': 'Public disclosure via Maine Attorney '
"General's Office; credit monitoring "
'offered to affected individuals',
'incident_response_plan_activated': 'Likely (credit monitoring '
'offered)',
'third_party_assistance': 'IDX (credit monitoring and identity '
'theft protection services)'},
'title': 'Data Breach at Nationwide Recovery Services, Inc. (NRS)',
'type': 'Data Breach'}