Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumActive

Dracut Public Schools

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 12, 2017

Filed

Jan 27, 2017

To disclose

15 days

Affected

90state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Dracut Public Schools →

Dracut Public Schools notified 90 New Hampshire residents of a breach involving employee W-2 data (name, address, SSN, income) after an employee fell victim to a phishing email on January 12, 2017. The attacker posed as the superintendent. The district froze the compromised email account and contacted law enforcement. Credit monitoring was offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 15 days

Jan 12, 2017

Begins

Jan 12, 2017

Discovered

Jan 27, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_7637c230124c81682017-02-01 · +5dVerified

Name: Dracut Public Schools
norm: dracut public schools
Domain: dracutps.org

Name: Dracut Public Schools
norm: dracut public schools
Domain: dracutps.org
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 12, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 12, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 27, 2017
Affected individuals: 90state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Reported to Attorney General Joseph Foster, Office of the Attorney General, NH
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Alerted administration officials shortly after there was a suspicion of a breach
Freeze the e-mail account from which the phishing e-mail came
Contacted the Dracut Police Department
Contacted the Cyber Crime Unit in the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Changes made: Offering the affected individuals credit monitoring at no charge for a period of 12 months
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 days(15 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGJan 27 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Jan 27 (NH), last Feb 1 (MA) — a 5-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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/dracut-public-schools-20170127.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 27, 2017
Raw hash: 01f86953a57d01b0717e6d00e03d2872302c134946037eff6425cab241296fc5

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityDracut Public Schools

Victim entityDracut Public Schools

Incidentdiscovered Jan 12, 2017

Stated responseAlerted administration officials shortly after there was a suspicion of a breach

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov