Social EngineeringTechnologyInformationPhishingBECEmployee Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountEmploymentMediumContained

NetBrain Technologies Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 3, 2016

Filed

Apr 20, 2016

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

18state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for NetBrain Technologies Inc. →2 incidents on file

NetBrain Technologies, Inc. experienced a Business Email Compromise (BEC) incident on March 3, 2016, where an unauthorized party posing as a senior executive tricked an employee into sending 2015 W-2 forms. The breach affected 18 New Hampshire residents, exposing names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and compensation/tax information. The company notified affected individuals immediately, reported the incident to the FBI and IRS, and offered two years of identity theft protection.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 48 days

Mar 3, 2016

Begins

Mar 3, 2016

Discovered

Apr 20, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_64790d34d0a658cc2016-04-22 · +2dVerified

Name: NetBrain Technologies Inc.
norm: netbrain technologies

Name: NetBrain Technologies Inc.
norm: netbrain technologies
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Mar 3, 2016
Breach occurred: Mar 3, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 3, 2016
Affected individuals: 18state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the U.S. Federal Bureau of InvestigationNotified the Internal Revenue ServiceMet with the Burlington, Massachusetts police departmentNotified appropriate state regulatory authorities
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Attempted to recall the email
Began its security incident response effort
Contacted the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Contacted the Internal Revenue Service
Met with the Burlington, MA police department to obtain a police report
Notified its affected current and former employees by email and/or FedEx on the day of the incident
Provided information about filing Identity Theft Affidavits with the IRS
Provided information about taking similar steps with their state taxing authorities
Provided information about placing a credit/security freeze or fraud alert on credit reports and payment card accounts
Provided information about taking additional steps to protect themselves from identity theft
Changes made: Enhancing its data privacy and security safeguards
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(48 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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New Hampshire State AGApr 20 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+2d

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/netbrain-technologies-20160420.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 20, 2016
Raw hash: 3f2607fc41c1b17267cc89b4f3fedeb8d9c643b938fa952c6763e783b025e8d8

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNetBrain Technologies Inc.

Victim entityNetBrain Technologies Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 3, 2016

Stated responseAttempted to recall the email

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov