MalwareTechnologyInformationPhishingRansomwareMulti-Stage ChainData ExfiltratedPIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountCredentialsLowActive

Heavy Hammer, Inc.

bd_5b0383fe9134555a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Apr 21, 2023

Filed

Jun 2, 2023

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

93state residents only

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Heavy Hammer, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Heavy Hammer, Inc. notified customers that on or about April 21, 2023, its servers were compromised by a ransomware attack following a phishing incident. The breach may have exposed names, contact info, and payment data. The company engaged forensic experts, isolated the attack, and offered 12 months of Experian IdentityWorks.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 42 days

Apr 21, 2023

Begins

Apr 21, 2023

Discovered

Jun 2, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

13 wks faster

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_2eff04030016c7e22023-06-02Verified
Indiana State AGbd_3863736bac302e1b2023-06-02Verified
Vermont State AGbd_720d1e34f4ace7932023-06-02Verified
California State AGbd_5b7ce0bb4fc71b552023-06-06 · +4dVerified

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Oregon State AGbd_f0a7a07d987e77a12023-06-06 · +4dVerified
Maine State AGbd_cb3cfd0b71b8e8b12023-06-09 · +7dVerified
Washington State AGbd_32d7a0ae4bfbd4472023-05-23 · +10dCandidate

Name: Heavy Hammer, Inc.
norm: heavy hammer

Name: Heavy Hammer, Inc.
norm: heavy hammer
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Apr 21, 2023
Breach occurred: Apr 21, 2023
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 1, 2023
Affected individuals: 93state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountCredentials
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: notified proper authorities
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Retained a team of cybersecurity experts to aid in the incident response
Notified proper authorities
Isolated the attack
Offering complimentary access to Experian IdentityWorksSM for 12 months
Changes made: Fortify cyber-security efforts
On-going forensic analysis to help us understand the true extent of the breach
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(42 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 8 states

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Washington State AGMay 23 · first

Massachusetts State AG+10d

Indiana State AG+10d

Vermont State AG+10d

Montana State AG+10d · this page

California State AG+14d

Oregon State AG+14d

Maine State AG+17d

Pattern: first filing May 23 (WA), last Jun 9 (ME) — a 17-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-332.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 2, 2023
Raw hash: 90efe974fa3348188e4e94f8d12eb47d471817b48ec7fd2d127c452807c9d3aa

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHeavy Hammer, Inc.

Victim entityHeavy Hammer, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Apr 21, 2023

Stated responseRetained a team of cybersecurity experts to aid in the incident response

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov