AccidentalManufacturingTechnologyManufacturingMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)MediumActive

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC HOLDINGS, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 29, 2013

Filed

Feb 6, 2013

To disclose

8 days

Affected

97state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC HOLDINGS, INC. →8 incidents on file

Schneider Electric notified NH AG of a misdelivery incident involving bulk mail vendors for its Employee Share Plan. On Jan 17, 2013, employee SSNs, names, and addresses were mistakenly included in mailing address fields. Discovered Jan 29, 2013. Approximately 97 NH residents affected. Schneider offered 1 year of credit monitoring and identity theft insurance.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 12 days

discovery → filing · 8 days

Jan 17, 2013

Begins

Jan 29, 2013

Discovered

Feb 6, 2013

Filed

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_21dbabed028da3b52013-02-07 · +1dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_88ae52dd2aaff8352013-02-07 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_a27ff7ae723a0f372013-02-13 · +7dCandidate

Name: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC HOLDINGS, INC.
norm: schneider electric
Domain: se.com

Name: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC HOLDINGS, INC.
norm: schneider electric
Domain: se.com
Industry: ManufacturingllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Jan 29, 2013
Breach occurred: Jan 17, 2013
Undetected for: 12 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 97state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the Attorney General, State of New Hampshire

During the incident: Notified its Employee Share Plan vendor and the bulk mail vendor
Reviewing the bulk mailing procedures
Preparations for notification to all affected individuals
Offering credit monitoring services and identity theft insurance for a period of up to one year
Changes made: Reviewing the bulk mailing procedures that have been implemented in order to prevent this type of mistake from occurring again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 days(8 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGFeb 6 · first · this page

California State AG+1d

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Feb 6 (NH), last Feb 13 (MA) — a 7-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/schneider-electric-20130206.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 6, 2013
Raw hash: 4554a8befa8e068a9e869b4fc340cf4aa94f4f135bebf720630f881e216aa316

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySCHNEIDER ELECTRIC HOLDINGS, INC.

Victim entitySCHNEIDER ELECTRIC HOLDINGS, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 29, 2013

Stated responseNotified its Employee Share Plan vendor and the bulk mail vendor

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov