Cyber Incident Victim: Town of North Providence
Date:
May 2025
Location:
United States of America
Summary
The Town of North Providence experienced an external system breach resulting from hacking that compromised personal identifiers of approximately 1,840 individuals, including one Maine resident. The breach was discovered after the incident and affected individuals were subsequently notified in writing. As part of the response, the organization offered TransUnion-provided credit monitoring for twelve months along with a fully managed identity theft recovery service.
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Description
The Town of North Providence, a municipal government located at 2000 Smith Street in North Providence, Rhode Island, experienced a security incident that was reported as an external system breach resulting from hacking. According to the breach notice filed with the Maine Attorney General’s Office, the unauthorized access occurred on May 14, 2025, and the breach was not discovered until June 25, 2025. The incident exposed personal data of approximately 1,840 individuals, of whom only one was identified as a Maine resident. The information that was acquired included a name or other personal identifier in combination with additional data elements, although the specific categories of data were not detailed in the submitted notice.
In response to the breach, the Town of North Providence issued written notifications to the affected individuals on July 23, 2025, and a copy of the notice template was included with the filing. The notification informed recipients that they were being offered identity theft protection services, specifically twelve months of credit monitoring through TransUnion coupled with a fully managed identity theft recovery service. The breach report was submitted by Liam Jordan, who identified himself as an associate attorney with the law firm Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, providing his telephone number and email address for follow‑up inquiries. The submission indicated that the town was acting through its legal counsel to fulfill state‑level breach notification requirements.
The timeline outlined in the filing shows a gap of over six weeks between the initial breach on May 14 and its discovery on June 25, followed by approximately four weeks before the written notice was dispatched on July 23. No further technical details about the compromised systems, the attack vector, or any containment measures were disclosed in the available source material. The notice emphasized that the offered credit monitoring and recovery services were intended to mitigate potential harm arising from the exposed personal identifiers. This concludes the factual account of the incident as presented in the provided documentation.