MisuseManufacturingManufacturingPrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentMediumContained

OSRAM SYLVANIA INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 30, 2015

Filed

May 13, 2015

To disclose

13 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for OSRAM SYLVANIA INC. →

OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc. notified the NH Attorney General of a security breach involving its vendor Equifax. An Equifax employee misused access privileges to reset accounts for two former OSRAM employees in Jan/Feb 2015. One NH resident was affected. Data potentially included SSN, financial info, and employment records. The employee was terminated, law enforcement was notified, and credit monitoring was offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 119 days

discovery → filing · 13 days

Jan 1, 2015

Begins

Apr 30, 2015

Discovered

May 13, 2015

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: OSRAM SYLVANIA INC.
norm: osram sylvania

Name: OSRAM SYLVANIA INC.
norm: osram sylvania
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Apr 30, 2015
Breach occurred: Jan 1, 2015 – Feb 28, 2015
Undetected for: 119 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 13, 2015
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Terminated the employee
Cooperating with law enforcement
Performed an account reset that requires the affected individuals to contact Equifax to reestablish account access
Daily, targeted network monitoring of the affected accounts for suspicious activity
Offering each employee access to two free years of credit monitoring services
Reviewing its data breach notification protocols and vendor security practices
Changes made: Reviewing its data breach notification protocols and vendor security practices
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 days(13 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/osram-sylvania-20150513.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 13, 2015
Raw hash: aa0e287d71aeab7514e2ee4f0ad661c36552f6ebd9fb56a5077f1f55c9b72477

Reporting entityOSRAM SYLVANIA INC.

Victim entityOSRAM SYLVANIA INC.

Incidentdiscovered Apr 30, 2015

Stated responseTerminated the employee

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov