Social EngineeringOtherPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Great Falls Holdings, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 21, 2017

Filed

Mar 24, 2017

To disclose

3 days

Affected

3state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Great Falls Holdings, Inc. →

Great Falls Holdings, Inc. reported a phishing attack on Feb 23, 2017, discovered Mar 21, 2017. 3 NH residents' W-2 data (names, SSNs, addresses) exposed. Notices mailed Mar 24, 2017. Experian identity monitoring offered. Authorities notified.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 26 days

discovery → filing · 3 days

Feb 23, 2017

Begins

Mar 21, 2017

Discovered

Mar 24, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3 affectedView incident

Name: Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.A.
norm: bernstein shur sawyer nelson

Name: Great Falls Holdings, Inc.
norm: great falls
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Mar 21, 2017
Breach occurred: Feb 23, 2017
Undetected for: 26 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 24, 2017
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: notify appropriate federal and Maine state tax and law enforcement authorities
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Worked with our attorneys to notify appropriate federal and Maine state tax and law enforcement authorities
Offering complimentary identify-theft monitoring services to everyone affected by this incident through Experian IdentityWorks and Experian Identity Restoration
Changes made: Reviewing our internal procedures to help ensure that an incident like this does not happen again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 3 days(3 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/great-falls-20170324.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 24, 2017
Raw hash: 155d7d26ce0ad7db245265a8aa0a3f889f19cdedef6f91c60f3b7c2f2af53135

Reporting entityBernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.A.

Victim entityGreat Falls Holdings, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 21, 2017

Stated responseWorked with our attorneys to notify appropriate federal and Maine state tax and law enforcement authorities

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov