Social EngineeringManufacturingManufacturingPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Hoshino (USA) Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 15, 2025

Filed

Apr 15, 2026

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Hoshino (USA) Inc. →2 incidents on file

Hoshino (U.S.A.) Inc. notified the Nebraska Attorney General of a phishing incident affecting one Nebraska resident. Unauthorized access to an employee's email occurred between August 15 and August 26, 2025. The accessed data included the resident's name, Social Security number, and financial account information. No misuse was found. Hoshino secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, and provided 12 months of credit monitoring via TransUnion/Cyberscout. Notification was sent on April 15, 2026.

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Incident timeline

Aug 15, 2025

Begins

Aug 15, 2025

Discovered

Apr 15, 2026

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_58f6e8d12d295cc92026-04-15Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_6ab78b426e55d8e62026-04-15Verified
Indiana State AGbd_c35e6e6bf37ceb302026-04-15Candidate

Name: Hoshino (USA) Inc.
norm: hoshino usa
Domain: hoshinousainfo.com

Name: Hoshino (USA) Inc.
norm: hoshino usa
Domain: hoshinousainfo.com
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Aug 15, 2025
Breach occurred: Aug 15, 2025 – Aug 26, 2025
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 15, 2026
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: providing written notice of this incident to relevant state regulators
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the account
Hired professional forensic investigators
Frozen the compromised account
Provided counselling and further training to the involved employee
Providing access to complimentary credit monitoring services for twelve (12) months, through TransUnion
Changes made: Working to implement additional training for its employees
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGApr 15 · first

New Hampshire State AGApr 15 · first

Indiana State AGApr 15 · first

Nebraska State AGApr 15 · 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://nebraska.gov/ago/data-breach/documents/e253ab52-c0e3-47a7-b3ce-2df55cd4e989.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 15, 2026
Raw hash: e8c53103e31f1b9043e83a41534006a3bc29f0a9edf00d0eb59e2218c0dbf4e9

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHoshino (USA) Inc.

Victim entityHoshino (USA) Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 15, 2025

Stated responseSecured the account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancenebraska.gov