Social EngineeringTechnologyInformationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

Stax Payments

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 1, 2016

Filed

Jan 9, 2017

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Stax Payments →

Stax Inc. notified the NH Attorney General of a phishing incident on Nov 15, 2016, compromising one employee's email. Data exposed included SSN, DOB, salary, and contact info. One NH resident affected. Stax engaged forensic investigators and the FBI, implemented double authentication, and offered 2 years of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 16 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 39 days

Nov 15, 2016

Begins

Dec 1, 2016

Discovered

Jan 9, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

13 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_2cff89969c8afca42017-01-09Verified

Name: Stax Payments
norm: stax payments
Domain: staxpayments.com

Name: Stax Payments
norm: stax payments
Domain: staxpayments.com
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Dec 1, 2016
Breach occurred: Nov 15, 2016
Undetected for: 16 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 6, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Engaged legal counsel and external forensic investigators
Working with information security specialists, legal counsel and law enforcement (FBI)
Rolling out a double authentication procedure for remote access to email
Planning to provide firm-wide employee training in early 2017 on cybersecurity best practices
Changes made: Rolling out a double authentication procedure for remote access to email
Planning to provide firm-wide employee training in early 2017 on cybersecurity best practices
Reviewing its internal practices to identify ways to improve its technical safeguards
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(39 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGJan 9 · first

New Hampshire State AGJan 9 · 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/stax-20170109.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 9, 2017
Raw hash: 4f745edc68e91dbdeada5c64c99de15b05c179ce13ee5a51daf55d9cdb6c341e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityStax Payments

Victim entityStax Payments

Incidentdiscovered Dec 1, 2016

Stated responseEngaged legal counsel and external forensic investigators

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov