Social EngineeringPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Hankin Group

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 19, 2018

Filed

Jan 7, 2019

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

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Hankin Group notified the NH AG of unauthorized access to an employee email account between Oct 31 and Nov 19, 2018, detected Nov 19, 2018. Incident involved phishing leading to credential compromise. Data exposed: names, DOB, SSNs, financial account numbers. One NH resident affected. Remediation included password reset, security strengthening, user training, and 24 months credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 19 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 49 days

Oct 31, 2018

Begins

Nov 19, 2018

Discovered

Jan 7, 2019

Filed

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

Name: Hankin Group
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Name: Hankin Group
norm: hankin group

Discovered: Nov 19, 2018
Breach occurred: Oct 31, 2018 – Nov 19, 2018
Undetected for: 19 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 2, 2019
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Launched an internal investigation with the assistance of third-party forensic investigators
Ensuring the password for the affected email account was changed
Taken additional actions to strengthen the security of its email systems
Providing additional training to users on how to identify phishing scams
Providing potentially affected individuals access to 24 months of credit monitoring and identity restoration services through TransUnion
Changes made: Ensuring the password for the affected email account was changed
Taken additional actions to strengthen the security of its email systems
Providing additional training to users on how to identify phishing scams
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(49 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/hankin-group-20190107.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 7, 2019
Raw hash: 42b5eca845769415b3ec88a1296eb60bb733847a38ce108591fa9aa28caec49c

Reporting entityHankin Group

Victim entityHankin Group

Incidentdiscovered Nov 19, 2018

Stated responseLaunched an internal investigation with the assistance of third-party forensic investigators

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov