Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingTargetedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumActive

PayneWest Insurance

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 15, 2016

Filed

Mar 17, 2016

To disclose

2 days

Affected

430state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for PayneWest Insurance →

PayneWest Insurance notified employees of a phishing incident on March 15, 2016, where an attacker used a spoofed executive email to trick an employee into forwarding W-2 forms. Affected data included names, SSNs, addresses, and wage info. The company notified the FBI and IRS, and provided 24 months of identity protection via AllClear ID.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 2 days

Mar 15, 2016

Discovered

Mar 17, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

9 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed430 affectedView incident

Name: PayneWest Insurance
norm: paynewest insurance
Domain: paynewest.com

Name: PayneWest Insurance
norm: paynewest insurance
Domain: paynewest.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 15, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 17, 2016
Affected individuals: 430state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement authorities, including the FBI and the IRSCooperating with their investigations
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified law enforcement authorities, including the FBI and the IRS
Cooperating with their investigations and remediation efforts
Arranged to have AllClear ID protect your identity for 24 months at no cost
Changes made: Evaluating our controls
Implementing additional protections
Taking further actions to enhance our information security safeguards moving forward
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 2 days(2 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/PayneWest.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 17, 2016
Raw hash: 1cbe87eee53034362812a404b764162fd2d4bc29f99d37ffc0dc16791571dd89

Reporting entityPayneWest Insurance

Victim entityPayneWest Insurance

Incidentdiscovered Mar 15, 2016

Stated responseNotified law enforcement authorities, including the FBI and the IRS

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov