Social EngineeringManufacturingManufacturingPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumActive

Michels Corporation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 27, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

34state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Michels Corporation →

Michels Corporation notified employees of a phishing scam on April 16, 2016, where an attacker impersonated an executive to obtain W-2 data (names, SSNs, earnings) of current and former employees. No systems were breached. Law enforcement was notified, and employees were offered two years of identity protection services.

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Incident timeline

Apr 16, 2016

Begins

Apr 27, 2016

Filed

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Oregon State AGbd_9fc818d3bb29a4d92016-04-27Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_71e9246106b6a5fa2016-04-25 · +2dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_c25ae7d87abf4bda2016-04-25 · +2dVerified

Name: Michels Corporation
norm: michels

Name: Michels Corporation
norm: michels
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Apr 16, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 26, 2016
Affected individuals: 34state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Federal law enforcement has been notifiedcontacted state and federal law enforcement
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Federal law enforcement has been notified about this incident
Contacted state and federal law enforcement and will be fully cooperating with them
Working with outside subject matter experts in this investigation
Offering two years of free identity protection services through LegalShield, Inc.
Changes made: Implemented additional security measures designed to prevent a recurrence of such an event
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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New Hampshire State AGApr 25 · first

Massachusetts State AGApr 25 · first

Oregon State AG+2d

Montana State AG+2d · 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Michels-Corporation.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 27, 2016
Raw hash: 9933b341d4afea497e4709a797efd32497263f474feb52c04d4ae9a9bcf1177e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMichels Corporation

Victim entityMichels Corporation

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseFederal law enforcement has been notified about this incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov