FEDERALItem 8.01 · voluntarySocial EngineeringBECPhishingTargetedMulti-Stage ChainHighContained
Synergy WorldWide
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Full breach record for Synergy WorldWide →Nature's Sunshine Products' wholly-owned Japanese subsidiary, Synergy Worldwide Japan G.K., was the victim of a Business Email Compromise (BEC) scheme. Criminal actors used employee impersonation to fraudulently induce wire transfers totaling $4.8 million between Feb 1-17, 2023. The company discovered the incident on Feb 17, 2023, engaged third-party investigators, and notified law enforcement. No unauthorized access to consumer data was found.
SEC clockMateriality determined Feb 24, 2023 → Filed Feb 24, 20230d ✓ SEC 4-day OK7 days discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Nutritional Medicinals, LLCnorm: nutritional medicinals
- SEC CIK
- 0000275053
Victim entity
- Name
- Synergy WorldWidenorm: synergy worldwide
- Domain
- synergyworldwide.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Feb 17, 2023
- Materiality determined
- Feb 24, 2023
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- —
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1598 Phishing for InformationT1566 Phishing
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- contacted appropriate law enforcement authorities
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 7 days(7 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- SEC 4-day OK · 0d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status SEC Materiality determined: Feb 24, 2023→ Filed: Feb 24, 20230d cal. 4 business days SEC 4-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.