Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountMediumActive

WEI Mortgage

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 20, 2017

Filed

Jan 3, 2018

To disclose

15 weeks

Affected

51state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for WEI Mortgage →2 incidents on file

WEI Mortgage LLC filed a supplemental notice with the New Hampshire Attorney General regarding a phishing attack that compromised employee email accounts. Unauthorized access occurred between September 13-28, 2017. The incident affected 51 New Hampshire residents, exposing SSNs, DOBs, bank account info, names, and addresses. WEI Mortgage engaged forensic investigators, notified law enforcement, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 7 days

discovery → filing · 15 weeks / 105 days

Sep 13, 2017

Begins

Sep 20, 2017

Discovered

Jan 3, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+7 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Oregon State AGbd_7165bea61db6abe52018-01-03Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_a019159615e703e02017-12-08 · +26dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_ed4e7a42d63e15722017-12-08 · +26dVerified
California State AGbd_eff1476b3e5e92832017-12-08 · +26dVerified

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Montana State AGbd_f9859b9eb47279842017-12-08 · +26dCandidate

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: WEI Mortgage
norm: wei mortgage
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 20, 2017
Breach occurred: Sep 13, 2017 – Sep 28, 2017
Undetected for: 7 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 8, 2017
Affected individuals: 51state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: reported this incident to federal law enforcementproviding notice of this event to other state regulators as required by law
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Launched an investigation to confirm the security of its network
Working with third-party forensic investigators
Conducted a manual and programmatic review of the impacted email accounts
Began mailing written notice of this incident to potentially affected individuals
Reported this incident to federal law enforcement
Changes made: Working to educate our employees about phishing scams
Confirm the ongoing security of our networks
Offering access to twenty-four (24) months of credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services through AllClear ID
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 weeks(105 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

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New Hampshire State AGDec 8 · first

Massachusetts State AGDec 8 · first

California State AGDec 8 · first

Montana State AGDec 8 · first

Oregon State AG+26d

New Hampshire State AG+26d · this page

Pattern: first filing Dec 8 (NH), last Jan 3 (NH) — a 26-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/wei-mortgage-20180103.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 3, 2018
Raw hash: b224b71fdb1101e6f9165c6f0bbcae55e9119b521d393fe90a849c2a83ae0052

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityWEI Mortgage

Incidentdiscovered Sep 20, 2017

Stated responseLaunched an investigation to confirm the security of its network

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov