Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountEmploymentHighContained

Driveline Retail Merchandising, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Jan 25, 2017

Filed

Feb 14, 2017

To disclose

20 days

Affected · nationwide

15,87856 in this filing

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Driveline Retail Merchandising, Inc. →

Driveline Retail Merchandising, Inc. experienced a phishing incident on January 25, 2017, where an employee responded to a scam email, inadvertently sending 2016 W-2s containing names, addresses, wages, and Social Security numbers of 15,878 employees nationwide (including 56 New Hampshire residents) to unknown third parties. The company notified the NH Attorney General, FBI, and IRS, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring via AllClear ID.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 20 days

Jan 25, 2017

Begins

Jan 25, 2017

Discovered

Feb 14, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_51a76cc81321414e2017-02-14Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_ce8ce68f50cd4c222017-02-14Verified

Name: Driveline Retail Merchandising, Inc.
norm: driveline retail merchandising
Domain: drivelineinstore.com

Name: Driveline Retail Merchandising, Inc.
norm: driveline retail merchandising
Domain: drivelineinstore.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Jan 25, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 25, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 14, 2017
Affected individuals: 15,878state + nationwide
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the Attorney General of New HampshireWorking with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)Working with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate the phishing scam
Working with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to help guard against any fraudulent tax filings
Engaged AllClear ID to assist all Driveline employees in monitoring their credit, identity theft prevention assistance and mitigation services
Changes made: Offering 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection through AllClear ID
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 days(20 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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Montana State AGFeb 14 · first

Massachusetts State AGFeb 14 · first

New Hampshire State AGFeb 14 · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/driveline-20170214.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 14, 2017
Raw hash: 27d7748b8c9bd2de0d1bb98d6947147c8d5034be6e9c8d8dfe8ca34598fc2741

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityDriveline Retail Merchandising, Inc.

Victim entityDriveline Retail Merchandising, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 25, 2017

Stated responseWorking with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate the phishing scam

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov