Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Copeland Chevrolet

bd_616959e0356f4e04 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 4, 2025

Filed

Oct 22, 2025

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Copeland Chevrolet →

Copeland Chevrolet notified the NH AG that on August 4, 2025, suspicious activity was identified in an employee email account. The account was compromised, exposing customer names, SSNs, driver's license numbers, state IDs, and financial account information. Four NH residents were affected. Copeland secured the account, engaged forensic experts, implemented MFA, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring via Kroll.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 79 days

Aug 4, 2025

Discovered

Oct 22, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+4 wks slower

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_7fc1eb9f9f34f8002025-10-20 · +2dVerified
Maine State AGbd_89b4e2dca0bb0e732025-10-16 · +6dCandidate

Name: CLARK HILL PLC
norm: clark hill

Name: Copeland Chevrolet
norm: copeland chevrolet
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Aug 4, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 16, 2025
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured its email environment
Changed the password associated with the impacted email account
Engaged independent computer forensic experts to assist
Offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity protection services through Kroll
Changes made: Ensured multi-factor authentication is implemented throughout the email environment
Installed new threat detection and log monitoring software on the email tenant
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 weeks(79 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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Maine State AGOct 16 · first

Massachusetts State AG+4d

New Hampshire State AG+6d · this page

Pattern: first filing Oct 16 (ME), last Oct 22 (NH) — a 6-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/copeland-chevrolet-20251022.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 22, 2025
Raw hash: edb6a3600a8d52d1e5e9765db074c6ac8e251f7fcd49341510d02ceb9e6694cf

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCLARK HILL PLC

Victim entityCopeland Chevrolet

Incidentdiscovered Aug 4, 2025

Stated responseSecured its email environment

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov