HackingHospitalityHospitalityPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCredentialsHealth (basic)MediumContained

Welk Resort Group, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 4, 2017

Filed

Jul 25, 2018

To disclose

33 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Welk Resort Group, Inc. →3 incidents on file

Welk Resort Group, Inc. notified the NH AG of unauthorized access to employee email accounts occurring between Nov 29 and Dec 4, 2017. Discovered Dec 4, 2017. Affected approx. 2 NH residents. Data included PII, SSN, financial info, credentials, and PHI. No evidence of misuse. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 5 days

discovery → filing · 33 weeks / 233 days

Nov 29, 2017

Begins

Dec 4, 2017

Discovered

Jul 25, 2018

Filed

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_5ee9f0ac46ebaa2f2018-07-25Verified
Montana State AGbd_e646fad2217cff732018-07-25Candidate
California State AGbd_4232e60c18c6f6d02018-08-01 · +7dVerified

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: Welk Resort Group, Inc.
norm: welk resort
Industry: Hospitalityllm

Discovered: Dec 4, 2017
Breach occurred: Nov 29, 2017 – Dec 4, 2017
Undetected for: 5 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 25, 2018
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCredentialsHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney GeneralWill provide notice to other state regulators as required by law
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Engaged third-party forensic investigators
Began mailing written notice to potentially affected individuals
Offered one year of credit and identity monitoring services through AllClear ID
Changes made: Working to enhance existing security measures
Confirming the ongoing security of networks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 33 weeks(233 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGJul 25 · first

Montana State AGJul 25 · first

New Hampshire State AGJul 25 · first · this page

California State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Jul 25 (MA), last Aug 1 (CA) — 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/welk-20180725.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 25, 2018
Raw hash: 83595ec1d1a565f7a54c329bef6dbded6def04f116701934a1049a42dac8184a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityWelk Resort Group, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Dec 4, 2017

Stated responseEngaged third-party forensic investigators

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov