HackingManufacturingTechnologyManufacturingStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDCredentialsMediumContained

Northrop Grumman

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 21, 2017

Filed

Apr 19, 2017

To disclose

29 days

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Northrop Grumman →3 incidents on file

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation notified the NH AG that Equifax Workforce Solutions (TALX) experienced unauthorized access to its W-2 portal between April 2016 and March 2017. Access may have included employee PII (SSN, names, contact info) and W-2 forms. 2 NH residents affected. Notifications sent April 18, 2017.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 337 days

discovery → filing · 29 days

Apr 18, 2016

Begins

Mar 21, 2017

Discovered

Apr 19, 2017

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

Montana State AGbd_3c2045ea7cc7ec282017-04-19Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_7cea83babb311e742017-04-19Verified
California State AGbd_d31c0124f8fc82e52017-04-19Verified

Name: Hunton & Williams LLP
norm: hunton williams

Name: Northrop Grumman
norm: northrop grumman
Domain: northropgrumman.com
Industry: ManufacturingllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Mar 21, 2017
Breach occurred: Apr 18, 2016 – Mar 29, 2017
Undetected for: 337 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 18, 2017
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDCredentials
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General in accordance with N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 359-C:20
Third party: via Equifax Workforce Solutions (aka TALX)
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Worked with Equifax to determine the details of the issue
Disabled access to the W-2 online portal for all log-in methods other than Single Sign On
Working with law enforcement authorities to assist them in their investigation
Changes made: Arranged to provide potentially affected individuals with three years of identity theft protection services at no cost
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 29 days(29 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 · 4 states

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Montana State AGApr 19 · first

Massachusetts State AGApr 19 · first

California State AGApr 19 · first

New Hampshire State AGApr 19 · 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/northrop-grumman-20170419.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 19, 2017
Raw hash: bc8afcd4788bf92e9fd53c2af1ecd081d3f2474ae4162987eb8d9ba3763bb5bd

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHunton & Williams LLP

Victim entityNorthrop Grumman

Incidentdiscovered Mar 21, 2017

Stated responseWorked with Equifax to determine the details of the issue

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov