Social EngineeringManufacturingManufacturingPhishingBECTargetedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumActive

EPTAM

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 20, 2016

Filed

May 27, 2016

To disclose

7 days

Affected

153state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for EPTAM →2 incidents on file

EPTAM Plastics notified the NH AG of a business email compromise incident. On May 18, 2016, an employee provided W-2 forms to a fraudulent email account spoofing the company President. The incident was discovered on May 20, 2016. 153 NH residents were affected. EPTAM notified the IRS, offered credit monitoring, and provided staff training.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days

discovery → filing · 7 days

May 18, 2016

Begins

May 20, 2016

Discovered

May 27, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

10 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed153 affectedView incident

Name: EPTAM
norm: eptam
Domain: eptam.com

Name: EPTAM
norm: eptam
Domain: eptam.com
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: May 20, 2016
Breach occurred: May 18, 2016
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 25, 2016
Affected individuals: 153state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the IRS about this incident
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Providing potentially affected individuals access to one (1) free year of credit and identity monitoring services, including identity restoration services, through Experian
Providing potentially affected individuals with information on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Notified the IRS about this incident
Reviewing its policies and procedures relating to data privacy
Provided further education to its staff on data privacy related issues, including email phishing and spooking attacks
Changes made: Reviewing its policies and procedures relating to data privacy
Provided further education to its staff on data privacy related issues, including email phishing and spooking attacks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 days(7 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/eptam-plastics-20160527.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 27, 2016
Raw hash: 94484d452aa1e204475857451720d0cd8ef9c3f7152ccb1844607ea012d9fccf

Reporting entityEPTAM

Victim entityEPTAM

Incidentdiscovered May 20, 2016

Stated responseProviding potentially affected individuals access to one (1) free year of credit and identity monitoring services, including identity restoration services, through Experian

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov