Social EngineeringTransportation & LogisticsTransportationPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumResolved

YRC Worldwide

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 24, 2018

Filed

Sep 21, 2018

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

52state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for YRC Worldwide →

YRC Worldwide Inc. notified the NH Attorney General of a data security incident involving 52 New Hampshire residents. On July 24, 2018, YRC detected a phishing email with a malicious link that allowed an attacker to establish a forwarding rule on an Office 365 account. The attacker accessed an employment-related spreadsheet containing names and social security numbers of current and former employees. YRC engaged forensic investigators, notified law enforcement, and enhanced IT security. Affected individuals are offered two years of credit monitoring and identity protection.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 59 days

Jul 24, 2018

Discovered

Sep 21, 2018

Filed

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_2c88af36935a695b2018-09-21Verified
Montana State AGbd_ab19ac28c15107652018-09-21Candidate
California State AGbd_d2314330876500272018-09-21Verified

Name: YRC Worldwide Inc.
norm: yrc worldwide

Name: YRC Worldwide
norm: yrc worldwide
Industry: Transportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: Jul 24, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 21, 2018
Affected individuals: 52state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Office of the Attorney General of New Hampshire
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Contacted law enforcement
Engaged a leading forensic investigation firm
Undertook enhancements to its already robust IT systems to block potential e-mail exploitation
Engaged multiple forensic teams, other cybersecurity experts, and law enforcement officers
Took immediate steps to analyze and improve security and monitoring of its Office 365 accounts containing sensitive information
Changes made: Offering two years of complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection to all impacted individuals
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(59 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGSep 21 · first

Montana State AGSep 21 · first

California State AGSep 21 · first

New Hampshire State AGSep 21 · 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/yrc-20180921.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 21, 2018
Raw hash: f37687a0ab0a8804f80260759e6dfc01fa24fd2da03b739c81596ea48d3bcf0a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityYRC Worldwide Inc.

Victim entityYRC Worldwide

Incidentdiscovered Jul 24, 2018

Stated responseContacted law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov