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Social EngineeringManufacturingManufacturingPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowResolved

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.

bd_491046aaf804c160 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 3, 2013

Filed

Jan 31, 2014

To disclose

30 weeks

Affected

11state residents only

Confidence

67%
Full breach record for Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.3 incidents on file

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. filed an amended security breach notification with the New Hampshire Attorney General on January 31, 2014. The incident, discovered on July 3, 2013, involved a spam email sent to training academy attendees. The attackers obtained email addresses and expired credit card numbers from a database of past attendees. The filing corrects the affected individual count from 7 to 11 New Hampshire residents. Bell offered one year of credit monitoring via Experian.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 30 weeks / 212 days

Jul 3, 2013

Discovered

Jan 31, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

+20 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed11 affectedView incident

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.