Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsMulti-Stage ChainCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Southern National Bancorp of Virginia, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 27, 2017

Filed

Jan 24, 2018

To disclose

26 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Southern National Bancorp of Virginia, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Southern National Bancorp of Virginia, Inc. d/b/a Sonabank filed a supplemental notice with the New Hampshire Attorney General regarding a phishing incident. The breach involved unauthorized access to employee email accounts between June 4 and August 26, 2017, discovered on July 27, 2017. The incident affected at least one New Hampshire resident, exposing names, SSNs, driver's license numbers, and financial account information. Sonabank engaged forensic experts, reset passwords, and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 53 days

discovery → filing · 26 weeks / 181 days

Jun 4, 2017

Begins

Jul 27, 2017

Discovered

Jan 24, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+17 wks slower

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

Name: Southern National Bancorp of Virginia, Inc.
norm: southern national bancorp of virginia

Name: Southern National Bancorp of Virginia, Inc.
norm: southern national bancorp of virginia
Also named: Southern National Bancorp of Virginia, Inc.dba oflegal entity
Sonabankdba oftrade name
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 27, 2017
Breach occurred: Jun 4, 2017 – Aug 26, 2017
Undetected for: 53 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 31, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-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: provided notice of this incident to the consumer reporting agenciesprovided notice to other state officials as required by law
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Hired third-party forensic experts to investigate the nature and scope of the incident
Ensured that all affected employees changed their passwords
Implementing additional measures to further safeguard its systems
Offering affected individuals access to 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services with Experian
Provided notice of this incident to the consumer reporting agencies
Changes made: Implementing additional measures to further safeguard its systems
Reviewing its existing policies and procedures to protect the privacy and security of personal information within its care
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 weeks(181 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/southern-national-bancorp-20180121.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 24, 2018
Raw hash: 179713cea0e59a71b484f43cb0db092dc2005736651bd4466dbf89d07b502699

Reporting entitySouthern National Bancorp of Virginia, Inc.

Victim entitySouthern National Bancorp of Virginia, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jul 27, 2017

Stated responseHired third-party forensic experts to investigate the nature and scope of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov