Social EngineeringTechnologyInformationPhishingBECTargetedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumContained

SARNOVA HOLDINGS, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 1, 2017

Filed

Mar 31, 2017

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for SARNOVA HOLDINGS, INC. →

Sarnova, Inc. notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a spear-phishing incident affecting 3 NH employees. An employee provided W-2 data (names, SSNs, earnings) to an attacker posing as an executive on Jan 20, 2017. Sarnova discovered the fraud on March 1, 2017, notified the IRS, and sent notices on March 31, 2017, offering 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 40 days

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Jan 20, 2017

Begins

Mar 1, 2017

Discovered

Mar 31, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

14 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_98b4385dc35733672017-03-31Verified

Name: SARNOVA HOLDINGS, INC.
norm: sarnova holdings

Name: SARNOVA HOLDINGS, INC.
norm: sarnova holdings
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Mar 1, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 20, 2017
Undetected for: 40 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 31, 2017
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the IRSNotified state taxing authorities
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified the IRS and state taxing authorities
Began mailing notifications to affected individuals
Offered one year identity theft protection services and credit monitoring through ID Experts
Provided employees with the Vice President of Human Resources' contact information
Changes made: Put in place additional information processing controls
Provided training and education to staff regarding phishing emails
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(30 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 31 · first

New Hampshire State AGMar 31 · 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/sarnova-20170331.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 31, 2017
Raw hash: 3c58dfa2a04def9cb8b50a9aae313b34ab61d02601e6f6e6e55fd29360ae46b7

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySARNOVA HOLDINGS, INC.

Victim entitySARNOVA HOLDINGS, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 1, 2017

Stated responseNotified the IRS and state taxing authorities

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov