Social EngineeringConstructionConstructionPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountEmploymentMediumContained

Sweeney Drywall Finishes Corp.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 26, 2017

Filed

Feb 7, 2017

To disclose

12 days

Affected

123state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Sweeney Drywall Finishes Corp. →

Sweeney Drywall Finishes Corp. experienced a phishing attack on January 26, 2017, where an employee in the payroll department responded to a spoofed email from the company president. The employee attached W-2 forms for all employees, exposing names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and wage/tax information for 123 New Hampshire residents. The company notified the NH Attorney General and FBI, engaged IT staff, and implemented new verification policies and training. Identity protection services were offered to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 12 days

Jan 26, 2017

Begins

Jan 26, 2017

Discovered

Feb 7, 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_5c7c4dd338ee0ecc2017-02-07Verified

Name: Sweeney Drywall Finishes Corp.
norm: sweeney drywall finishes

Name: Sweeney Drywall Finishes Corp.
norm: sweeney drywall finishes
Industry: Constructionllm

Discovered: Jan 26, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 26, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 7, 2017
Affected individuals: 123state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountEmployment
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Contacted law enforcement officials
Engaged its IT staff to determine if the message could be recalled
Reported the incident as a cybercrime to the FBI through the local field office
Changes made: Adopted a policy that no employee tax data including W-2 forms or Social Security numbers will be provided in response to any emailed request without first verifying that the request is valid with the purported sender
Providing training on the new policy as well as training on identifying and avoiding phishing attacks
Offering two years of identity protection and repair services from AllClear ID to all impacted employees at no cost
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 days(12 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 AGFeb 7 · first

New Hampshire State AGFeb 7 · 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/sweeney-drywall-20170207.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 7, 2017
Raw hash: bddc75c14a110ad6243c4b30abc7c664c85bcaade9a760ff5fe02184d84484f0

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySweeney Drywall Finishes Corp.

Victim entitySweeney Drywall Finishes Corp.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 26, 2017

Stated responseContacted law enforcement officials

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov