Social EngineeringTechnologyInformationPhishingBECEmployee Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

NSC Technologies

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 2, 2017

Filed

Mar 16, 2017

To disclose

14 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for NSC Technologies →2 incidents on file

NSC Technologies, LLC experienced a Business Email Compromise (BEC) incident on March 2, 2017. An external actor spoofed the CEO's email address and directed the payroll department to send employee W-2 forms. The request was identified as fraudulent moments after the data was sent. The breach exposed employees' names, addresses, Social Security Numbers, and 2016 income/withholding information. NSC notified law enforcement, the FTC, and the IRS, and provided one year of identity theft protection to affected employees.

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California clockDiscovered Mar 2, 2017 → Notified Mar 6, 20174d ✓ CA 60-day OK14 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 14 days

Mar 2, 2017

Begins

Mar 2, 2017

Discovered

Mar 16, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

9 wks faster

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

Name: NSC Technologies
norm: nsc technologies
Domain: nsc-tech.com

Name: NSC Technologies
norm: nsc technologies
Domain: nsc-tech.com
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Mar 2, 2017
Breach occurred: Mar 2, 2017 – Mar 2, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 6, 2017
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified appropriate federal, state, and local law enforcement agenciesAlerted the Federal Trade CommissionAlerted the federal Internal Revenue Service
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified appropriate federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies
Alerted the Federal Trade Commission
Alerted the federal Internal Revenue Service
Advised credit reporting companies Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion
Providing one year of free Identity Force identity theft protection and credit monitoring services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 days(14 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 4d
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: Mar 2, 2017
→ Notified: Mar 6, 2017
4d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Mar 2, 2017 → Notified: Mar 6, 2017	4d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-66949
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 16, 2017
Raw hash: af1422423c1254405d1888d11896e28a0e1a9f58d087141e480bb02a0ecc9662

Reporting entityNSC Technologies

Victim entityNSC Technologies

Incidentdiscovered Mar 2, 2017

Stated responseNotified appropriate federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov