Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingBECEmployee Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)FinancialMediumContained

Toscano Clements Taylor Cost Consultants

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 3, 2017

Filed

Mar 5, 2017

To disclose

2 days

Affected · nationwide

361 in this filing

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Toscano Clements Taylor Cost Consultants →

Toscano Clements Taylor Cost Consultants experienced a Business Email Compromise (BEC) phishing incident on March 3, 2017. An employee received a fraudulent email purporting to be from the CEO requesting W-2 forms. The employee complied, sending W-2 data (names, addresses, SSNs, earnings) for 36 individuals (1 NH resident) to an external attacker. The company notified the FTC, IRS, and FBI, and implemented new verification policies for data requests.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 2 days

Mar 3, 2017

Begins

Mar 3, 2017

Discovered

Mar 5, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

17 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed36 affectedView incident

Name: Toscano Clements Taylor Cost Consultants
norm: toscano clements taylor cost consultants
Domain: tctcost.com

Name: Toscano Clements Taylor Cost Consultants
norm: toscano clements taylor cost consultants
Domain: tctcost.com
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 3, 2017
Breach occurred: Mar 3, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 6, 2017
Affected individuals: 36state + nationwide
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Filed complaints with the FTCFiled complaints with the IRSReported to FBINotified Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified IT department
Notified CEO
Filed complaints with the FTC
Filed complaints with the IRS
Reported to Individual States/Attorney General
Reported to FBI
Changes made: Plan on encrypting all sensitive data when being transmitted over the internet
Implemented policy change: Employees may not send any personal information in response to an e-mail request; all requests must be verified verbally
Educating all TCT employees on identity theft methods to recognize and report these types of emails
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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/toscano-clements-taylor-20170305.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 5, 2017
Raw hash: 8852255642415a9a39e7445e17c021e7df780432c6c3b8aeaf2977398a7b3d65

Reporting entityToscano Clements Taylor Cost Consultants

Victim entityToscano Clements Taylor Cost Consultants

Incidentdiscovered Mar 3, 2017

Stated responseNotified IT department

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov