Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPHIMediumContained

FIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 5, 2020

Filed

Sep 1, 2020

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for FIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP →

First Pacific Advisors, LP (FPA) reported a phishing incident where unauthorized third parties accessed two employee email accounts between May 2-5, 2020. The attacker used a phishing email impersonating a service provider. Personal information including names, SSNs, DOBs, and health insurance data was present in the accounts. FPA notified 3 New Hampshire residents and provided 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 3 days

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 119 days

May 2, 2020

Begins

May 5, 2020

Discovered

Sep 1, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

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

Montana State AGbd_82906facf3da7e112020-09-02 · +1dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_ad4ed5e5d2beadbe2020-08-20 · +12dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_fa0ce49da93534302020-08-19 · +13dCandidate

Name: FIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP
norm: first pacific advisors

Name: FIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP
norm: first pacific advisors
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 5, 2020
Breach occurred: May 2, 2020 – May 5, 2020
Undetected for: 3 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 20, 2020
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPHI
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the email accounts
Launched an investigation with the assistance of an independent expert computer forensics firm
Reset the passwords for the affected email accounts
Required all other employees not affected by the incident to reset their passwords
Contacted federal and state authorities
Changes made: Implementing additional safeguards designed to protect its network
Increased the intensity of its phishing testing, including targeted training
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(119 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 AGAug 19 · first

Massachusetts State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+13d · this page

Montana State AG+14d

Pattern: first filing Aug 19 (NH), last Sep 2 (MT) — a 14-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/first-pacific-advisors-20200901.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 1, 2020
Raw hash: 30a66ab65c6e67b1558e9b5a95e84f407a8dae7cd669fe82ef2ed9a2617e0e5f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP

Victim entityFIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP

Incidentdiscovered May 5, 2020

Stated responseSecured the email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov