Social EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedPIIGovernment IDMediumActive

BERG

bd_1efeb124afd9174a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 16, 2017

Filed

Mar 21, 2017

To disclose

5 days

Affected · nationwide

1861 in this filing

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for BERG →

Berg LLC, a Boston-based biopharma company, notified the NH Attorney General on March 21, 2017, of a breach affecting 186 employees. On or about Feb 1, 2017, an unknown actor impersonated the CEO via phishing to fraudulently obtain W-2 information. The breach involves one NH resident. Berg retained legal counsel and notified the FBI.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 43 days

discovery → filing · 5 days

Feb 1, 2017

Begins

Mar 16, 2017

Discovered

Mar 21, 2017

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_7a1cd95b459e2cdc2017-03-20 · +1dVerified

Name: MCCARTER & ENGLISH, LLP
norm: mccarter english

Name: BERG
norm: berg
Domain: berg.com
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Mar 16, 2017
Breach occurred: Feb 1, 2017
Undetected for: 43 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 186state + nationwide
Data types: PIIGovernment ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified FBI
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Retained the law firm of McCarter & English, LLP to assist with remediating the data security breach
Conducted a preliminary investigation
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 days(5 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 AGMar 20 · first

New Hampshire State AG+1d · 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/berg-20170321.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 21, 2017
Raw hash: f0f5fe45f7d2c2a6a219f928f289261690de9898bfbee22a6a96bfea0cf606cc

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMCCARTER & ENGLISH, LLP

Victim entityBERG

Incidentdiscovered Mar 16, 2017

Stated responseRetained the law firm of McCarter & English, LLP to assist with remediating the data security breach

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov