Social EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowContained

Northwood, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

May 6, 2019

Filed

Jul 15, 2019

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

10 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Northwood, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Northwood, Inc., a durable medical equipment supplier, experienced a data breach after an employee fell victim to a phishing email that captured login credentials. An unauthorized individual accessed the employee's email account between May 3 and May 6, 2019. The account contained protected health information (PHI) regarding healthcare providers' exclusion status with CMS. Northwood contained the incident by taking the account offline, resetting passwords, and implementing MFA. Affected individuals were offered two years of identity monitoring.

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California clockDiscovered May 6, 2019 → Notified Jul 19, 201974d ✗ CA 60-day late10 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 3 days

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 70 days

May 3, 2019

Begins

May 6, 2019

Discovered

Jul 15, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

This filing is one of 10 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_16b3901825b8115e2019-07-15Verified
Montana State AGbd_191444b326d59f102019-07-15Verified
Oregon State AGbd_639c50815a8fcebf2019-07-15Verified
HHS OCRbd_7f2db47cb52e499c2019-07-15Verified

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Washington State AGbd_c289eff5b4ca87792019-07-15Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_e60f94c96da1fb792019-07-15Candidate
HHS OCRbd_1768919779e848922019-07-16 · +1dCandidate
HHS OCRbd_3a593e7557edc9f52019-07-16 · +1dCandidate
HHS OCRbd_04b075f72f69eecc2019-07-12 · +3dVerified

Name: Northwood
norm: northwood
Domain: northwoodmfg.com

Name: Northwood, Inc.
norm: northwood
Domain: northwoodinc.com
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: May 6, 2019
Breach occurred: May 3, 2019 – May 6, 2019
Undetected for: 3 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 19, 2019
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Immediately took the impacted email account offline
Changed the account password
Implemented mandatory password resets for all employee email accounts
Notified employees to be on the lookout for suspicious emails
Engaged a leading computer forensics expert
Reviewed the entire contents of the email account to identify what personal and protected information was stored within it
Arranged to have Kroll monitor identity for 2 years at no cost
Changes made: Implemented additional technical safeguards on our email system, including multi-factor authentication, advanced threat protection, and email archiving
Provided further training and education for employees to prevent similar future incidents
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(70 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day late · 74d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: May 6, 2019
→ Notified: Jul 19, 2019
74d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: May 6, 2019 → Notified: Jul 19, 2019	74d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day late

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 7 states

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HHS OCRJul 12 · first

Massachusetts State AG+3d

Montana State AG+3d

Oregon State AG+3d

HHS OCR+3d

Washington State AG+3d

New Hampshire State AG+3d

California State AG+3d · this page

HHS OCR+4d

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-148920
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 15, 2019
Raw hash: 7e36d34155ffac7e1b6216634ec7245891e367fd058b0168e5e115a4ee162082

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNorthwood

Victim entityNorthwood, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered May 6, 2019

Stated responseImmediately took the impacted email account offline

ComplianceCA 60-day late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov