Social EngineeringHealthcareManufacturingHealthcarePhishingBECEmployee Data InvolvedWire FraudGovernment IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentFinancial accountMediumContained

Biomedical Systems Corp.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 2, 2017

Filed

Mar 13, 2017

To disclose

11 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Biomedical Systems Corp. →

Biomedical Systems Corp. notified the NH Attorney General of a W-2 phishing attack occurring on March 2, 2017, where a criminal posing as management obtained employee W-2 information for 2016. One New Hampshire resident was affected. The company notified the IRS and FBI, informed employees via email, and mailed breach notices with 36 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 11 days

Mar 2, 2017

Begins

Mar 2, 2017

Discovered

Mar 13, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

10 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_68cc65a4f04d675d2017-03-13Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_902e9931983ba76a2017-03-15 · +2dCandidate

Name: Biomedical Systems Corp.
norm: biomedical systems

Name: Biomedical Systems Corp.
norm: biomedical systems
Industry: HealthcarellmManufacturingllm

Discovered: Mar 2, 2017
Breach occurred: Mar 2, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 14, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 Phishing
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Department of JusticeNotified the IRSNotified law enforcement (including the FBI)
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified the IRS and law enforcement of this incident (including the FBI)
Provided affected individuals with three years of free credit monitoring and ID restoration services through AllClear ID
Informed current employees of this incident via email on Friday, March 3, 2017
Mailed notification letters to all affected individuals on March 14, 2017
Changes made: Provided Form 14039 Affidavit to affected individuals to help reduce chances of tax fraud
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 days(11 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGMar 13 · first

New Hampshire State AGMar 13 · 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/biomedical-20170313.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 13, 2017
Raw hash: 7b746186545b9dae61151b30a5266986f23d8590f3b8936bd52eca023fead0da

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBiomedical Systems Corp.

Victim entityBiomedical Systems Corp.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 2, 2017

Stated responseNotified the IRS and law enforcement of this incident (including the FBI)

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov