Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesTechnologyFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPIIMediumContained

Lendio Partners, LLC

bd_07ce79b488b47a0d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 1, 2017

Filed

Sep 15, 2017

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Lendio Partners, LLC →2 incidents on file

Lendio, Inc. notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a phishing incident in May 2017. An unauthorized individual accessed an employee email account containing franchise applications with PII, SSNs, and payment info. Lendio blocked access, notified the FBI, and offered 1 year of credit monitoring to affected NH residents starting August 30, 2017.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 61 days

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 76 days

May 1, 2017

Begins

Jul 1, 2017

Discovered

Sep 15, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+3 wks slower

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

Name: Lendio Partners, LLC
norm: lendio partners
Domain: lendio.com

Name: Lendio Partners, LLC
norm: lendio partners
Domain: lendio.com
Industry: Financial ServicesllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Jul 1, 2017
Breach occurred: May 1, 2017 – May 31, 2017
Undetected for: 61 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 30, 2017
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPII
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Access to the file account has been updated and blocked to outside threats
Conducted a full investigation of the matter
Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
A thorough review of Lendio’s internal procedures is underway
Engaging cybersecurity experts
Offering credit monitoring services at no cost for one (1) year
Changes made: A thorough review of Lendio’s internal procedures is underway with the goal of further enhancing the security of confidential information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 weeks(76 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/lendio-20170915.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 15, 2017
Raw hash: 8cdb87bff5646827d953a575029d5dc2151d5fb0316c598b43591afe2c39a3b2

Reporting entityLendio Partners, LLC

Victim entityLendio Partners, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Jul 1, 2017

Stated responseAccess to the file account has been updated and blocked to outside threats

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov