MalwareManufacturingManufacturingPhishingRansomwareData EncryptedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

Tower Fasteners LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 22, 2023

Filed

Apr 21, 2023

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Tower Fasteners LLC →2 incidents on file

Tower Fasteners LLC experienced a data security incident on March 22, 2023, after an employee in Mexico clicked a phishing link containing malware. The malware encrypted company systems. Investigation revealed that current and former employee personal information was potentially accessed. One New Hampshire resident was affected. Tower deployed monitoring software, reset passwords, reimaged endpoints, and is implementing MFA. Credit monitoring is being offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Mar 22, 2023

Begins

Mar 22, 2023

Discovered

Apr 21, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

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

Name: Tower Fasteners LLC
norm: tower fasteners

Name: Tower Fasteners LLC
norm: tower fasteners
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Mar 22, 2023
Breach occurred: Mar 22, 2023
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 25, 2023
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Deployed real-time monitoring, containment, and remediation software on every server and device
Reset all user and administrative passwords
Reimaging all endpoints and restoring affected systems from clean disaster recovery backups
Decommission and restoration of a number of computer systems
Changes made: Implementing multi-factor authentication for all employee accounts on a rolling basis
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(30 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/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 entityTower Fasteners LLC

Victim entityTower Fasteners LLC

Incidentdiscovered Mar 22, 2023

Stated responseDeployed real-time monitoring, containment, and remediation software on every server and device

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov