Social EngineeringManufacturingManufacturingPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Somero Enterprises, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 16, 2021

Filed

Feb 28, 2022

To disclose

15 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Somero Enterprises, Inc. →

Somero Enterprises, Inc. notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a phishing incident affecting one NH resident. Unauthorized access to an employee email account occurred around November 16, 2021, exposing name, SSN, and driver's license data. Somero secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, reset passwords, and provided credit monitoring to the affected individual. Notifications were sent on February 24, 2022.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 15 weeks / 104 days

Nov 16, 2021

Discovered

Feb 28, 2022

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Somero Enterprises, Inc.
norm: somero enterprises

Name: Somero Enterprises, Inc.
norm: somero enterprises
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Nov 16, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 24, 2022
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Engaged a digital forensics firm to assist with the process
Secured its email environment
Performed password resets on the compromised account
Implemented corporate-wide cybersecurity training and phishing campaigns
Contacted Mimecast to determine why its spam filter did not successfully catch the phishing email
Offering complimentary credit and identity monitoring services
Changes made: Evaluating the potential migration of all mail clients to the Cloud
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 weeks(104 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/somero-enterprises-20220228.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 28, 2022
Raw hash: aefb46f34640bc0367dbd5525a6ccfc08067e262802a9e622fbbaac9daefce12

Reporting entitySomero Enterprises, Inc.

Victim entitySomero Enterprises, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Nov 16, 2021

Stated responseEngaged a digital forensics firm to assist with the process

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov