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HackingHealthcareTechnologyHealthcareVulnerability ExploitSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedTargetedPIIPHIIdentity (basic)Government IDHighContained

INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY

bd_85ce2c38db68f19f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Jul 26, 2023

Filed

Nov 22, 2023

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

3,123state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

63%
Full breach record for INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY →2 incidents on file

Welltok, Inc. notified the International Paper Company Group Health and Welfare Plan of a security event involving the MOVEit Transfer tool. An unauthorized actor exploited a vulnerability in the tool on May 30, 2023, to access the server and exfiltrate personal information, including PHI. Welltok patched the vulnerability and is offering 24 months of credit monitoring to affected individuals. Notice was filed with the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs on November 22, 2023.

South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due17 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 57 days
discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 119 days

May 30, 2023

Begins

Jul 26, 2023

Discovered

Nov 22, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+5 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Part of Welltok supply-chain incident (2023) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
HHS OCRNov 14 · first
South Carolina State AG+8d · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 14 (TN), last Nov 22 (SC) — a 8-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.