Social EngineeringPhishingData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICMediumContained
Duquesne Light Company
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Full breach record for Duquesne Light Company →Duquesne Light Company (DLC) notified New Hampshire regulators of a data security incident discovered on June 16, 2021. An external actor used phishing emails to compromise a small number of company email accounts, potentially exposing employee and job applicant personal information including names, Social Security numbers, and driver's license numbers. DLC contained the initial breach, discovered a re-compromise on July 27, 2021, and engaged forensic investigators. DLC offered 12 months of Experian IdentityWorks to affected individuals.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/duquesne-light-20211101.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Nov 1, 2021
- Raw hash
- 33cbcbcb5c1b0d4d3834489b7aecd156c8b4668c3c863227def41388f80a98d9
Reporting entity
- Name
- Duquesne Light Companynorm: duquesne light
Victim entity
- Name
- Duquesne Light Companynorm: duquesne light
Incident
- Discovered
- Jun 16, 2021
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- Threat actor
- External
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 20 weeks(138 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.