Social EngineeringTelecom & MediaInformationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

WNET

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 10, 2017

Filed

Aug 4, 2017

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for WNET →

WNET notified NH AG of a phishing incident where employee credentials were compromised, potentially exposing NH residents' PII, SSNs, and financial data. 3 NH residents affected. Notification sent Aug 4, 2017. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 61 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 55 days

Apr 10, 2017

Begins

Jun 10, 2017

Discovered

Aug 4, 2017

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

Massachusetts State AGbd_51ca31d320f6bbeb2017-08-04Verified

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: WNET
norm: wnet
Industry: Telecom & Mediallm

Discovered: Jun 10, 2017
Breach occurred: Apr 10, 2017
Undetected for: 61 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 4, 2017
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Took steps to secure the employees' email accounts
Engaged outside computer forensic investigators
Conducted a lengthy programmatic and manual review of the contents of these email accounts
Providing all potentially affected individuals access to 2 free year of credit and identity monitoring services through Equifax
Established a dedicated hotline for potentially affected individuals
Changes made: Provided guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Provided information on how to place a fraud alert and security freeze on one's credit file
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(55 days from discovery to filing)
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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Massachusetts State AGAug 4 · first

New Hampshire State AGAug 4 · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/wnet-20170804.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 4, 2017
Raw hash: 07090a78a68f81b0aad145c43d323447f1d4cc1a93d45f729c57c1aacc706143

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityWNET

Incidentdiscovered Jun 10, 2017

Stated responseTook steps to secure the employees' email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov