Social EngineeringManufacturingManufacturingPhishingTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumActive

Rule Steel, Inc.

bd_389304b59e649b87 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 6, 2016

Filed

Apr 11, 2016

To disclose

5 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Rule Steel, Inc. →

Rule Steel, Inc. disclosed a spear-phishing incident on April 6, 2016, where an attacker impersonated the President to trick HR into releasing employee PII (names, DOBs, SSNs, addresses). The breach was discovered when HR emailed the President directly. The company reported the incident to the FBI and local police, engaged Kroll for credit monitoring, and restricted email transmission of sensitive employee data.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 days

Apr 6, 2016

Begins

Apr 6, 2016

Discovered

Apr 11, 2016

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Rule Steel, Inc.
norm: rule steel

Name: Rule Steel, Inc.
norm: rule steel
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Apr 6, 2016
Breach occurred: Apr 6, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 15, 2016
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Reported to the FBIReported to local policeNotifying other government agencies
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Reported it to the FBI, local police, and are cooperating with law enforcement in their investigation
In the process of notifying other government agencies about the incident
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for one year
Changes made: Evaluating how we handle employee data and personally identifiable information
No private employee information of the kind affected in this incident may be transmitted via email until we can further evaluate our electronic security systems
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.

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Rule-Steel.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 11, 2016
Raw hash: d5a8ca22094a1d74c04cdd13dd9c18881d42d82f756d2c44d4b2ea700d1202a0

Reporting entityRule Steel, Inc.

Victim entityRule Steel, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Apr 6, 2016

Stated responseReported it to the FBI, local police, and are cooperating with law enforcement in their investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov