Social EngineeringTransportation & LogisticsTransportationPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

ABC Bus Companies, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 16, 2018

Filed

Mar 2, 2018

To disclose

14 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for ABC Bus Companies, Inc. →

ABC Bus Companies, Inc. notified the NH Attorney General of a phishing incident on February 16, 2018, where an employee responded to a fraudulent email requesting W-2s. The breach exposed names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers of employees, including one New Hampshire resident. The company notified law enforcement, the FBI, and the IRS, and provided one year of identity monitoring via Kroll.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 14 days

Feb 16, 2018

Begins

Feb 16, 2018

Discovered

Mar 2, 2018

Filed

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

Name: ABC
norm: abc
Domain: abc.com

Name: ABC Bus Companies, Inc.
norm: abc bus companies
Industry: Transportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: Feb 16, 2018
Breach occurred: Feb 16, 2018
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 2, 2018
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified NH Department of JusticeNotified the FBINotified the IRS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified local law enforcement as well as the FBI
Notified the IRS of the incident relevant to only those employees whose actual W-2 forms were sent
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost for one (1) year to affected individuals
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 days(14 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/abc-bus-20180302.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 2, 2018
Raw hash: c3265ac70d0e20b254aac6c66fb9c36d1f4af117c3cedc0d154ff94cc2db2798

Reporting entityABC

Victim entityABC Bus Companies, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Feb 16, 2018

Stated responseNotified local law enforcement as well as the FBI

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov