Social EngineeringTechnologyInformationPhishingTargetedPIIGovernment IDEmploymentMediumContained

DealerSocket Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 18, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for DealerSocket Inc. →2 incidents on file

DealerSocket Inc. issued a supplemental notice to Montana consumers regarding a phishing incident on April 11, 2016. Employee W-2 data (names, SSNs, addresses, earnings) was compromised. The company engaged the IRS Criminal Investigation Unit and provided 36 months of identity protection via AllClear ID.

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Incident timeline

Apr 11, 2016

Begins

Apr 18, 2016

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_41dbe639117be1972016-04-18Verified

Name: DealerSocket Inc.
norm: dealersocket

Name: DealerSocket Inc.
norm: dealersocket
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Apr 11, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 18, 2016
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIGovernment IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Working with the United States Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Unit
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Implementing additional security measures and user education
Working with the United States Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Unit
Arranged to have AllClear ID protect your identity for 36 months
Changes made: Implementing additional security measures and user education designed to prevent a recurrence of a fraudulent phishing scheme
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGApr 18 · first

Montana State AGApr 18 · first · this page

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/DealerSocket.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 18, 2016
Raw hash: de627f72c08ab1d8f3c46f4304c48bc5259d7741365b238cfa9717180d961bf6

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityDealerSocket Inc.

Victim entityDealerSocket Inc.

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseImplementing additional security measures and user education

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov