Social EngineeringGovernmentGovernmentPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)MediumContained

Town of Babylon

bd_480eafacfe3be392 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 6, 2020

Filed

Jul 30, 2020

To disclose

25 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Town of Babylon →

The Town of Babylon notified the NH AG of a phishing incident where employees clicked a malicious link on Feb 4, 2020. Unauthorized access to employee email accounts occurred between Feb 4 and Mar 10, 2020. The breach potentially exposed PII of 2 NH residents, including names, SSNs, DOBs, driver's licenses, financial data, and health information. The Town engaged forensic investigators, secured accounts, and offered 1 year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days

discovery → filing · 25 weeks / 175 days

Feb 4, 2020

Begins

Feb 6, 2020

Discovered

Jul 30, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_944615117d2fbd672020-07-27 · +3dVerified
HHS OCRbd_6e46bcb608dd15f52020-07-24 · +6dVerified

Name: Cipriani & Werner
norm: cipriani werner
Domain: c-wlaw.com

Name: Town of Babylon
norm: town of babylon
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Feb 6, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 4, 2020 – Mar 10, 2020
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 28, 2020
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
Data elements: Date of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Swiftly blocked the malicious website on its network
Engaged a third-party forensics company to investigate
Immediately secured the affected accounts
Took steps to enhance the security of all information
Notifying the affected individuals
Offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services
Changes made: Took steps to enhance the security of all information to help prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 25 weeks(175 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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HHS OCRJul 24 · first

Massachusetts State AG+3d

New Hampshire State AG+6d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jul 24 (NY), last Jul 30 (NH) — a 6-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/babylon-new-york-20200730.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 30, 2020
Raw hash: ec96bf872057c1b53685b8c80877ba4f9fd1b4f4f156436aeb6729b3d77cf3c9

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCipriani & Werner

Victim entityTown of Babylon

Incidentdiscovered Feb 6, 2020

Stated responseSwiftly blocked the malicious website on its network

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov