Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Hutchinson and Bloodgood LLP

bd_4d2d098d5a3c6a98 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 21, 2016

Filed

Mar 10, 2017

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Hutchinson and Bloodgood LLP →

Hutchinson and Bloodgood LLP disclosed a data breach involving a targeted spear-phishing email sent to an employee on December 21, 2016. The incident potentially exposed clients' names, addresses, and Social Security numbers. The firm notified the FBI, IRS, and state taxing authorities and offered one year of identity protection services to affected individuals.

J jump to incidentP pin to compareR raw source

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 79 days

Dec 21, 2016

Begins

Dec 21, 2016

Discovered

Mar 10, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

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

Massachusetts State AGbd_e89e7f8b7e978bd02017-03-10Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_ee76a2872d089ade2017-03-10Verified
Montana State AGbd_a09991b5b2be07fb2017-02-01 · +37dCandidate

Name: Hutchinson and Bloodgood LLP
norm: hutchinson and bloodgood

Name: Hutchinson and Bloodgood LLP
norm: hutchinson and bloodgood
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 21, 2016
Breach occurred: Dec 21, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the FBINotified the IRS FTBNotified related state taxing authorities
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified the FBI, IRS FTB and related state taxing authorities
Offering a complimentary one-year membership to Experian’s ProtectMyID Alert product
Took immediate actions to further increase the security of our systems and tightened controls
Changes made: Increased the security of our systems
Tightened controls
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 weeks(79 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

View merged incident ↗

Montana State AGFeb 1 · first

Massachusetts State AG+37d

New Hampshire State AG+37d

California State AG+37d · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 1 (MT), last Mar 10 (CA) — a 37-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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-66868
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 10, 2017
Raw hash: 10f7b86fc908c305790782d261f5adcf4bbff0c0a3b166bb8859a6bad6581be3

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHutchinson and Bloodgood LLP

Victim entityHutchinson and Bloodgood LLP

Incidentdiscovered Dec 21, 2016

Stated responseNotified the FBI, IRS FTB and related state taxing authorities

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov