Social EngineeringTechnologyRetail & ConsumerInformationPhishingStolen CredentialsBECMulti-Stage ChainWire FraudCustomer Data InvolvedPIIFinancial accountLowContained

COVETRUS, INC.

bd_7931d93d4568f830 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Nov 28, 2022

Filed

May 8, 2023

To disclose

23 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for COVETRUS, INC. →

Covetrus, Inc. reported a security event where two employee email accounts were accessed by an unauthorized actor between November 11 and November 28, 2022. The actor likely used phishing to obtain credentials and redirected payments. Personal and financial information from the affected accounts was potentially downloaded. Covetrus engaged forensic experts, notified law enforcement, and is offering two years of complimentary identity monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 17 days

discovery → filing · 23 weeks / 161 days

Nov 11, 2022

Begins

Nov 28, 2022

Discovered

May 8, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+4 wks slower

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_69e0a341a0dd565a2023-05-08Candidate
Montana State AGbd_f19b90c3553688802023-05-08Verified

Name: COVETRUS, INC.
norm: covetrus

Name: COVETRUS, INC.
norm: covetrus
Industry: TechnologyllmRetail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Nov 28, 2022
Breach occurred: Nov 11, 2022 – Nov 28, 2022
Undetected for: 17 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIFinancial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Took steps to stop the activity
Launched an investigation with the support of a forensics expert
Notified law enforcement
Offering two years of complimentary identity monitoring through Kroll
Deploy additional safeguards onto our systems
Reinforcing our security, authentication, and verification practices
Reviewing our systems to enhance security monitoring and controls
Changes made: Deploy additional safeguards onto our systems
Reinforcing our security, authentication, and verification practices
Reviewing our systems to enhance security monitoring and controls
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 23 weeks(161 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Maine State AGMay 8 · first

Montana State AGMay 8 · first

New Hampshire State AGMay 8 · first · this page

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/covetrus-20230508.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 8, 2023
Raw hash: e16547983c99b3e1fc0197d06bfe9f05d4f53a48125b0ba0620438f1905e8f1d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCOVETRUS, INC.

Victim entityCOVETRUS, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Nov 28, 2022

Stated responseTook steps to stop the activity

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov