Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

WEI Mortgage

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 20, 2017

Filed

Apr 23, 2018

To disclose

31 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for WEI Mortgage →2 incidents on file

WEI Mortgage LLC filed a supplemental notice with the New Hampshire Attorney General on April 23, 2018, regarding a phishing attack that compromised employee email accounts. Unauthorized access occurred between September 13 and 28, 2017. The incident exposed SSNs, DOBs, bank account info, addresses, and names of 1 additional NH resident. WEI engaged forensic investigators, notified law enforcement, and offered 2 years of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 7 days

discovery → filing · 31 weeks / 215 days

Sep 13, 2017

Begins

Sep 20, 2017

Discovered

Apr 23, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+22 wks slower

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

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: WEI Mortgage
norm: wei mortgage
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 20, 2017
Breach occurred: Sep 13, 2017 – Sep 28, 2017
Undetected for: 7 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 23, 2018
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the New Hampshire Attorney GeneralReported this incident to federal law enforcement
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Launched an investigation to confirm the security of its network and determine the nature and scope of the incident
Working with third-party forensic investigators
Conducted a manual and programmatic review of the impacted email accounts
Reported this incident to federal law enforcement
Providing notice of this event to other state regulators as required by law
Changes made: Working diligently to educate our employees about phishing scams
Confirm the ongoing security of our networks
Offering access to two (2) years of credit and identity monitoring services, including identity restoration services, through AllClear ID
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 31 weeks(215 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/wei-mortgage-20180423.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 23, 2018
Raw hash: 7b06330a24a5823954ba26b91ddf39787629b4d769b49949a4fa2b276b61e6f9

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityWEI Mortgage

Incidentdiscovered Sep 20, 2017

Stated responseLaunched an investigation to confirm the security of its network and determine the nature and scope of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov