Social EngineeringManufacturingManufacturingPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountHighContained

ABB

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Severity

High

Discovered

Aug 25, 2017

Filed

Sep 12, 2017

To disclose

18 days

Affected

1,967state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for ABB →2 incidents on file

ABB, Inc. notified employees of a phishing attack on August 25, 2017, which compromised an employee email account. Potentially exposed data included names, addresses, SSNs, medical records, and direct deposit info. ABB engaged Kroll to provide one year of identity monitoring services.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due18 days discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 18 days

Aug 25, 2017

Begins

Aug 25, 2017

Discovered

Sep 12, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_b0f3f8a56b64160d2017-09-11 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_c71bd5c692d2dea72017-09-11 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_f813098da8386b762017-09-11 · +1dVerified
Montana State AGbd_9956c249d34e54fe2017-09-18 · +6dCandidate

Name: ABB
norm: abb
Domain: careers.abb

Name: ABB
norm: abb
Domain: careers.abb
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Aug 25, 2017
Breach occurred: Aug 25, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,967state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: ABB secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring services
ABB conducted a full assessment to determine the scope of the data loss
ABB will continue to monitor the situation carefully
Changes made: Evaluating the policy regarding how employees handle personal information in an email account
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 days(18 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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California State AGSep 11 · first

New Hampshire State AGSep 11 · first

Massachusetts State AGSep 11 · first

South Carolina State AG+1d · this page

Montana State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Sep 11 (CA), last Sep 18 (MT) — a 7-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2017/ABBInc..pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 12, 2017
Raw hash: 6f277701e4020af7ac36eaeb84e27d4ab0fbb41690aff97f23332a094edf5cee

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityABB

Victim entityABB

Incidentdiscovered Aug 25, 2017

Stated responseABB secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring services

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov