HackingManufacturingManufacturingStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Dixon Foods Group, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 20, 2020

Filed

Jun 1, 2020

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Dixon Foods Group, Inc. →

Dixon Foods Group, Inc. notified the NH Attorney General of a third-party breach involving its payroll provider, PaperlessPay. Unauthorized access to PaperlessPay's SQL server occurred on Feb 18, 2020. One NH resident's PII (SSN, pay info) was potentially exposed. Dixon provided 1 year of Experian identity protection.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 31 days

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 73 days

Feb 18, 2020

Begins

Mar 20, 2020

Discovered

Jun 1, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

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

Part of PaperlessPay Corporation supply-chain incident (2020) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_567af82ff0383e702020-05-29 · +3dVerified

Name: Polsinelli PC
norm: polsinelli

Name: Dixon Foods Group, Inc.
norm: dixon foods
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Mar 20, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 18, 2020
Undetected for: 31 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 29, 2020
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contacted PaperlessPayPaperlessPay worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Third party: via PaperlessPay Corporation
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Dixon promptly investigated the incident to determine what, if any, personal information a third party might have acquired
Dixon notified the potentially impacted employees
Dixon arranged for complimentary identity theft protection services for the employees through Experian
Changes made: PaperlessPay rebuilt a new domain controller, a new web server, and a new SQL server from scratch
PaperlessPay restored database files to the new SQL server from backups
PaperlessPay assigned new IP addresses to all the new servers
PaperlessPay changed all passwords for users and administrators
PaperlessPay implemented a setting that requires clients to change their passwords when they login for the first time
PaperlessPay disabled all remote access capabilities to the new web server and SQL server
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(73 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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Massachusetts State AGMay 29 · first

New Hampshire State AG+3d · 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/dixon-foods-20200601.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 1, 2020
Raw hash: a6ccb47d0046a80e727984e38742431fe1fee268c61a44ba7be5129854783045

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPolsinelli PC

Victim entityDixon Foods Group, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 20, 2020

Stated responseDixon promptly investigated the incident to determine what, if any, personal information a third party might have acquired

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov