Social EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)FinancialMediumContained

Endologix, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 3, 2016

Filed

Mar 9, 2016

To disclose

6 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Endologix, Inc. →

Endologix, Inc. experienced a phishing incident on March 3, 2016, where a fraudulent email led to the disclosure of 2015 W-2 forms for certain employees. The W-2s contained names, addresses, social security numbers, and financial information. Endologix notified law enforcement (FBI, IRS) and state agencies, and offered two years of identity protection services to affected employees. The company implemented new policies to verify request origins.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 days

Mar 3, 2016

Begins

Mar 3, 2016

Discovered

Mar 9, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

12 wks faster

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_b3abdd8a52ca53ed2016-03-10 · +1dVerified

Name: Endologix, Inc.
norm: endologix

Name: Endologix, Inc.
norm: endologix
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Mar 3, 2016
Breach occurred: Mar 3, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 9, 2016
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Reported this incident to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, and several state agencies
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified law enforcement
Reported this incident to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, and several state agencies
Offering two years of free identity protection services from Experian, through the ProtectMyID® Elite program
Changes made: Adopting new policies and procedures that will empower their personnel to better recognize a suspicious request, even from within Endologix, and enable them to verify the origin of a request prior to releasing sensitive information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 days(6 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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New Hampshire State AGMar 9 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

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/endologix-20160309.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 9, 2016
Raw hash: 445a1e0ec534eb3af5200aa7371a5b8ba4c6517b68c5ea367a936072d52f5d51

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityEndologix, Inc.

Victim entityEndologix, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 3, 2016

Stated responseNotified law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov