MalwarePhishingRansomwareData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIDENTITY_BASICLowContained
General Fasteners Company
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Full breach record for General Fasteners Company →Tower Fasteners LLC reported a data incident on April 21, 2023, affecting 1 New Hampshire resident. On March 22, 2023, an employee in Mexico clicked a phishing link containing malware, which encrypted systems. The incident involved current and former employee personal information. Tower responded by resetting passwords, reimaging endpoints, restoring from backups, implementing MFA, and offering 24 months of credit monitoring.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/tower-fastners-20230421.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Apr 21, 2023
- Raw hash
- 47f6ec9b8458c03959e155a3d74c6e79dc95680a1eb814cfca381a5bffebd8a3
Reporting entity
- Name
- General Fasteners Companynorm: general fasteners
Victim entity
- Name
- General Fasteners Companynorm: general fasteners
Incident
- Discovered
- Mar 22, 2023
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Apr 25, 2023
- Affected individuals
- 1
- Data types
- PIIIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified NH Attorney General
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 4 weeks(30 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.