Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumContained

VECELLIO GROUP, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 1, 2017

Filed

Feb 7, 2017

To disclose

6 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for VECELLIO GROUP, INC. →

Vecellio Group, Inc. notified the NH Attorney General that a phishing email on February 1, 2017, resulted in the unauthorized acquisition of employees' W-2 tax forms. The compromised data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and wage/tax information. Approximately one New Hampshire resident was affected. The company reported the incident to law enforcement and offered 12 months of free identity theft protection and credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 days

Feb 1, 2017

Begins

Feb 1, 2017

Discovered

Feb 7, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

17 wks faster

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

Name: VECELLIO GROUP, INC.
norm: vecellio group

Name: VECELLIO GROUP, INC.
norm: vecellio group
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 1, 2017
Breach occurred: Feb 1, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 7, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Reported the incident to law enforcement authorities
Launched an investigation to determine the nature and scope of the issue
Offered free identity theft protection and credit monitoring services to affected individuals for 12 months at no cost to them
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 days(6 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/vecellio-20170207.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 7, 2017
Raw hash: 7ac60a1b4864d821bbb80d9276cdecca405fe909425f1c922abce3bf5814082d

Reporting entityVECELLIO GROUP, INC.

Victim entityVECELLIO GROUP, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Feb 1, 2017

Stated responseReported the incident to law enforcement authorities

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov