Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountEmploymentMediumContained

PCA Skin

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 22, 2017

Filed

Feb 28, 2017

To disclose

6 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for PCA Skin →

PCA Skin experienced an email phishing scheme on February 22, 2017, resulting in the unauthorized access to one New Hampshire employee's 2016 W-2 form. The compromised data included name, address, Social Security number, and income. The company notified law enforcement, offered one year of identity theft protection via LifeLock, and provided additional employee security training.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 days

Feb 22, 2017

Begins

Feb 22, 2017

Discovered

Feb 28, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

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

Name: PCA Skin
norm: pca skin
Domain: pcaskin.com

Name: PCA Skin
norm: pca skin
Domain: pcaskin.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Feb 22, 2017
Breach occurred: Feb 22, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 25, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountEmployment
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified law enforcement about this incident
Providing additional employee training on identifying and avoiding phishing attacks
Offering affected employees twelve months of identity theft prevention and restoration services from LifeLock
Mailed a notice letter to the New Hampshire resident on February 25, 2017
Changes made: Providing employee training on how to identify and avoid phishing attacks
Work with employees with access to sensitive data in order to make sure company security procedures and safeguards are followed
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 days(6 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/pca-skin-20170228.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 28, 2017
Raw hash: e5a2c15009240b98444196f59b2e0542b59976f0622e13a7736b2100a07b5af6

Reporting entityPCA Skin

Victim entityPCA Skin

Incidentdiscovered Feb 22, 2017

Stated responseNotified law enforcement about this incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov