HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesBECData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Pickard Chilton Architects

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 5, 2021

Filed

Jun 14, 2021

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

67%

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Pickard Chilton Architects notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a data security incident discovered on March 5, 2021. An unknown actor accessed the firm's Office 365 environment using valid credentials to redirect employee payroll deposits (Business Email Compromise). Approximately 1 New Hampshire resident was affected, with data potentially including SSNs and dates of birth. The firm engaged forensic experts, reset passwords, implemented MFA, and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 101 days

Mar 5, 2021

Discovered

Jun 14, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

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

Name: Pickard Chilton Architects
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Name: Pickard Chilton Architects
norm: pickard chilton architects
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 5, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 16, 2021
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1114 Email CollectionT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the FBI to investigate
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Took immediate steps to secure our environment and launched an investigation with the assistance of leading independent digital forensics and cybersecurity experts
Contacted the FBI to investigate
Enabled additional security features for our digital environment
Changes made: Deployment of an advanced threat detection tool with twenty-four hour active monitoring by a cybersecurity operations team
Resetting all user passwords within the environment
Implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA)
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 weeks(101 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/pickard-chilton-architects-20210614.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 14, 2021
Raw hash: bd159fa7b61986b1f08f1baec16982ce644b51ac31c4e0025bcd73f0143493bd

Reporting entityPickard Chilton Architects

Victim entityPickard Chilton Architects

Incidentdiscovered Mar 5, 2021

Stated responseTook immediate steps to secure our environment and launched an investigation with the assistance of leading independent digital forensics and cybersecurity experts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov