Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Federal Contractors, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 8, 2020

Filed

Mar 4, 2021

To disclose

25 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Federal Contractors, Inc. (FCI) notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a data event affecting one NH resident. Unauthorized actors accessed an employee email account between June 1 and June 25, 2020. FCI discovered the breach on September 8, 2020, and notified the resident on February 24, 2021. Impacted data included names, addresses, and Social Security numbers. FCI engaged forensic specialists, reset passwords, and provided two years of credit monitoring via IDX.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 99 days

discovery → filing · 25 weeks / 177 days

Jun 1, 2020

Begins

Sep 8, 2020

Discovered

Mar 4, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+7 wks slower

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

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: Federal Contractors, Inc.
norm: federal contractors
Domain: federalpremium.com
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 8, 2020
Breach occurred: Jun 1, 2020 – Jun 25, 2020
Undetected for: 99 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 24, 2021
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Office of the New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Changed the user's password
Commenced an investigation to determine the nature and scope of the incident with assistance from third-party computer forensic specialists
Provided written notice of this incident to all affected individuals
Providing access to credit monitoring services for two (2) years through IDX to individuals whose personal information was potentially affected by this incident
Changes made: Implementing additional safeguards and training to its employees
Implementation of multi-factor authentication for all employee email accounts
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 25 weeks(177 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/federal-contractors-20210304.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 4, 2021
Raw hash: de3df45994459ad88813f52ef082d97e37cf8f0ec56da5bbbb0cde13ca1a8125

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityFederal Contractors, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Sep 8, 2020

Stated responseChanged the user's password

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov