FEDERALItem 8.01 · voluntarySocial EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPretextingWire FraudTargetedHighActive

Synergy WorldWide

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Severity

High

Financial impact

$4.80M

Discovered

Feb 17, 2023

Filed

Feb 24, 2023

To disclose

7 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Synergy WorldWide →

Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. disclosed that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Synergy Worldwide Japan G.K., was the victim of a criminal scheme involving employee impersonation and fraudulent requests. The incident resulted in fraudulently induced wire transfers totaling $4.8 million between February 1 and February 17, 2023. The Company launched a third-party investigation and contacted law enforcement. No unauthorized access to confidential consumer information was found.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 16 days

discovery → filing · 7 days

Feb 1, 2023

Begins

Feb 17, 2023

Discovered

Feb 24, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

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

Name: Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc.
norm: natures sunshine products
SEC CIK: 0000275053

Name: Synergy WorldWide
norm: synergy worldwide
Domain: synergyworldwide.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Feb 17, 2023
Breach occurred: Feb 1, 2023 – Feb 17, 2023
Undetected for: 16 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: —
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Launched an investigation, led by an independent third party
Initiated contact with its bank
Initiated contact with appropriate law enforcement authorities
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 days(7 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 filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statementThis record

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/275053/000027505323000003/
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Feb 24, 2023
Raw hash: 851651341e4cfb668c454b0f8fb350598ee0b6d0a5bc109f7a2c55560f1d356a

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Reporting entityNature's Sunshine Products, Inc.

Victim entitySynergy WorldWide

Incidentdiscovered Feb 17, 2023

Stated responseLaunched an investigation, led by an independent third party

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.sec.gov

Source filing