Social EngineeringGovernmentGovernmentPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedTargetedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountCredentialsMediumContained

Town of Christiansburg

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 26, 2018

Filed

Nov 30, 2018

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected · nationwide

9091 in this filing

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Town of Christiansburg →

Town of Christiansburg, VA notified NH AG of a phishing incident affecting 909 individuals (1 NH resident). Discovered Oct 26, 2018. Data exposed: SSN, financial accounts, driver's licenses, credit cards, credentials, passports. Response: credential reset, law enforcement notification, credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 162 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 35 days

May 17, 2018

Begins

Oct 26, 2018

Discovered

Nov 30, 2018

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed909 affectedView incident

Name: Town of Christiansburg
norm: town of christiansburg
Industry: government_public

Name: Town of Christiansburg
norm: town of christiansburg
Industry: government_public
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Oct 26, 2018
Breach occurred: May 17, 2018 – Sep 1, 2018
Undetected for: 162 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 26, 2018
Affected individuals: 909state + nationwide
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountCredentials
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Changed log in information for all employee accounts
Monitored accounts by computer forensics
Contacted local law enforcement
Notified affected individuals
Provided complimentary credit monitoring
Offered identity restoration services
Changes made: Required security and data protection training for all employees
Implemented additional technical security measures
Updated password protocols
Limited user's access to information
Conducted regular phishing testing of employee and network
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(35 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/christiansburg-20181130.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 30, 2018
Raw hash: e80ed66f4f66851d9868348acf7245fa2f1de118e09c0667eb31cd42bcfd2dcf

Reporting entityTown of Christiansburg

Victim entityTown of Christiansburg

Incidentdiscovered Oct 26, 2018

Stated responseChanged log in information for all employee accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov