Social EngineeringTechnologyInformationPhishingStolen CredentialsBECTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

PHILIPS DS NORTH AMERICA LLC

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Severity

Low

Discovered

May 18, 2018

Filed

May 24, 2018

To disclose

6 days

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for PHILIPS DS NORTH AMERICA LLC →3 incidents on file

Philips North America LLC notified the NH Attorney General of a phishing incident in May 2018. An unknown actor sent a phishing email to employees, stealing credentials to access personnel profiles and change direct deposit instructions. Two NH residents were affected. Philips implemented MFA, enhanced authentication for personnel changes, and provided credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 17 days

discovery → filing · 6 days

May 1, 2018

Begins

May 18, 2018

Discovered

May 24, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

18 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2 affectedView incident

Name: PHILIPS DS NORTH AMERICA LLC
norm: philips ds north america

Name: PHILIPS DS NORTH AMERICA LLC
norm: philips ds north america
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: May 18, 2018
Breach occurred: May 1, 2018 – May 31, 2018
Undetected for: 17 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 18, 2018
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified NH Department of Justice
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Assembled a team and began investigating
Confirmed and reviewed administrative, physical and technical measures
Implemented dual factor authentication
Added an additional authentication requirement for employees to approve any changes to employee personnel accounts
Reaching out to employees through test phishing emails, email alerts, posters, and through the use of its internal electronic boards to quickly provide notice and education to employees to be vigilant to such email attacks
Advised its employees of their right to contact law enforcement
Notified the affected employees of the steps to take to access credit monitoring and identity theft remediation services
Changes made: Mandates two information security training modules for all employees, which cover information security fundamentals and phishing awareness
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 days(6 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/philips-20180524.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 24, 2018
Raw hash: df7527d7340cd38357dca6b605625682dad7d1b2db27ef6bd5e48c1b05a6b76a

Reporting entityPHILIPS DS NORTH AMERICA LLC

Victim entityPHILIPS DS NORTH AMERICA LLC

Incidentdiscovered May 18, 2018

Stated responseAssembled a team and began investigating

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov