Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumContained

AnnieMac Home Mortgage

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 28, 2017

Filed

Feb 16, 2018

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

AnnieMac Home Mortgage notified the NH Attorney General of a phishing incident between Sept 15-28, 2017. Unauthorized access to employee email accounts exposed one NH resident's PII (SSN, tax returns, name, address, phone). Remediation included monitoring, employee training, and 1-year identity protection for the victim.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 13 days

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 141 days

Sep 15, 2017

Begins

Sep 28, 2017

Discovered

Feb 16, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+11 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_bbfe072433f6dbe12018-02-23 · +7dVerified

Name: AnnieMac Home Mortgage
norm: anniemac home mortgage
Domain: annie-mac.com
Industry: financial_services

Name: AnnieMac Home Mortgage
norm: anniemac home mortgage
Domain: annie-mac.com
Industry: financial_services
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 28, 2017
Breach occurred: Sep 15, 2017 – Sep 28, 2017
Undetected for: 13 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 16, 2018
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notification of Security Breach to Attorney General for the State of New Hampshire
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Conducted a thorough investigation
Implemented increased, continuous monitoring of all its internal systems for access and use
Informed all of its employees of the incident
Providing ongoing mandatory training to employees on security programs, with an emphasis on phishing awareness and steps required to prevent further attacks
Offering a complimentary one-year membership for Experian's IdentityWorks 5M to the affected New Hampshire resident
Changes made: Implemented increased, continuous monitoring of all its internal systems for access and use
Providing ongoing mandatory training to employees on security programs, with an emphasis on phishing awareness and steps required to prevent further attacks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(141 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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New Hampshire State AGFeb 16 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Feb 16 (NH), last Feb 23 (MA) — a 7-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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/anniemac-20180216.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 16, 2018
Raw hash: d4815a4bfa12d75cc3116ad0be20bb067ff7c4d57d4dcf45bf8532ce4659fbad

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAnnieMac Home Mortgage

Victim entityAnnieMac Home Mortgage

Incidentdiscovered Sep 28, 2017

Stated responseConducted a thorough investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov