Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumContained

inVentiv Health, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 7, 2016

Filed

Jul 21, 2016

To disclose

14 days

Affected

8state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for inVentiv Health, Inc. →

inVentiv Health, Inc. notified employees of a targeted phishing incident in June 2016 where W-2 data (name, address, SSN, salary) was uploaded to a file sharing site. The company notified the FBI and IRS, provided two years of Equifax credit monitoring, and enhanced security training.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 36 days

discovery → filing · 14 days

Jun 1, 2016

Begins

Jul 7, 2016

Discovered

Jul 21, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

17 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

California State AGbd_9e66be2ecd1822a82016-07-21Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_c6c51c86f0cfba5b2016-07-21Verified

Name: inVentiv Health, Inc.
norm: inventiv health

Name: inVentiv Health, Inc.
norm: inventiv health
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 7, 2016
Breach occurred: Jun 1, 2016
Undetected for: 36 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 19, 2016
Affected individuals: 8state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the IRS and FBICooperating with their investigations
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified the IRS and FBI
Cooperating with their investigations
Partnered with Equifax to provide Credit Watch Gold with 3-in-1 Monitoring identity theft protection product for two years at no charge
Re-educating employees with respect to phishing emails
Taken steps to enhance existing security
Changes made: Re-educating employees with respect to phishing emails
Taken steps to enhance existing security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 days(14 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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California State AGJul 21 · first

New Hampshire State AGJul 21 · first

Montana State AGJul 21 · 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/inVentiv-Health-Inc..pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 21, 2016
Raw hash: 3a14ceee660680f44525aa45020826e80b1f1212d53aeadf03bedeb254ba3e34

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityinVentiv Health, Inc.

Victim entityinVentiv Health, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jul 7, 2016

Stated responseNotified the IRS and FBI

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov