Social EngineeringEnergy & UtilitiesUtilitiesPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedGovernment IDHealth (basic)MediumContained

Vermont Electrical Power Company, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 1, 2021

Filed

Dec 6, 2021

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Vermont Electrical Power Company, Inc. →

Vermont Electric Power Company, Inc. (VELCO) reported a phishing incident in October 2021 affecting one employee's email account. The attacker accessed four files containing SSNs and health insurance numbers for a small number of individuals, including one NH resident. No exfiltration was found. VELCO notified the resident and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 17 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 66 days

Sep 14, 2021

Begins

Oct 1, 2021

Discovered

Dec 6, 2021

Filed

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

Name: Vermont Electrical Power Company, Inc.
norm: vermont electrical power

Name: Vermont Electrical Power Company, Inc.
norm: vermont electrical power
Industry: Energy & Utilitiesllm

Discovered: Oct 1, 2021
Breach occurred: Sep 14, 2021
Undetected for: 17 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDHealth (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Filed notice with New Hampshire Consumer Protection Bureau
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Conducted forensic investigation
Notified the affected New Hampshire resident
Offered free credit monitoring services to that individual
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(66 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/vermont-electric-power-20211206.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 6, 2021
Raw hash: deee9261d6892c605741ce2e650e85a6513728d549e764d7757cf2d4f01e12bc

Reporting entityVermont Electrical Power Company, Inc.

Victim entityVermont Electrical Power Company, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 1, 2021

Stated responseConducted forensic investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov