Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Northeastern Star Asset Management

bd_49ffb77cbbaf6b7c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

May 1, 2019

Filed

Sep 11, 2019

To disclose

19 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Northeastern Star Asset Management →

Northeastern Star Asset Management notified individuals of a security incident where unauthorized emails may have been sent from an employee's account. Unauthorized access likely occurred between April 29 and May 1, 2019. The incident involved potential access to client PII. The company secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days

discovery → filing · 19 weeks / 133 days

Apr 29, 2019

Begins

May 1, 2019

Discovered

Sep 11, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+10 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_7ca68968934e10802019-09-11Verified

Name: Northeastern Star Asset Management
norm: northeastern star asset management

Name: Northeastern Star Asset Management
norm: northeastern star asset management
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 1, 2019
Breach occurred: Apr 29, 2019 – May 1, 2019
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 9, 2019
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the employee’s email account
Engaged a leading cyber security firm to assist with the investigation
Undertook a comprehensive review of the employee’s email account
Offered complimentary one-year membership of Experian’s IdentityWorks
Changes made: Implementation of multi-factor authentication for email
Additional procedures to further expand and strengthen security processes
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 19 weeks(133 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGSep 11 · first

Montana State AGSep 11 · 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/General-Notice-5.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 11, 2019
Raw hash: deff6f9a5fcb7994f9e28ee8507eb93eccbb7a983f29793e30c2d7cb016178d5

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNortheastern Star Asset Management

Victim entityNortheastern Star Asset Management

Incidentdiscovered May 1, 2019

Stated responseSecured the employee’s email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov