HackingManufacturingManufacturingStolen CredentialsData DestroyedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

Vaupell Aerospace and Defense

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 12, 2016

Filed

Sep 30, 2016

To disclose

18 days

Affected

119state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Vaupell Aerospace and Defense →2 incidents on file

Vaupell Aerospace and Defense reported that an unidentified third party accessed its network servers on September 12, 2016, using a legitimate user ID. The intruder destroyed data on the servers, including employee personal information (names, addresses, dates of birth, SSNs, and some pay/retirement data) for 119 New Hampshire residents. Data was recovered from backups. It is unknown if data was exfiltrated. Seattle Police are investigating.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 17 days

Sep 12, 2016

Begins

Sep 12, 2016

Discovered

Sep 30, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

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

Washington State AGbd_6763e93128a15ca22016-09-30Candidate
Montana State AGbd_4cc299ebabb623102016-10-03 · +3dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_b2a8e7fdca93bfd02016-10-03 · +3dVerified

Name: Vaupell Aerospace and Defense
norm: vaupell aerospace and defense
Domain: vaupell.com

Name: Vaupell Aerospace and Defense
norm: vaupell aerospace and defense
Domain: vaupell.com
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Sep 12, 2016
Breach occurred: Sep 12, 2016 – Sep 12, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 3, 2016
Affected individuals: 119state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1485 Data Destruction
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Deactivated the user ID used for the intrusion
Notified Seattle Police
Recovering data from backups
Changes made: Reviewing and improving security protocols to prevent recurrence
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 days(18 days from discovery to filing)
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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Washington State AGSep 30 · first

New Hampshire State AGSep 30 · first · this page

Montana State AG+3d

Massachusetts State AG+3d

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/vaupell-20160930.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 30, 2016
Raw hash: 7ed219cfbac3157d490322c92ade66e0318883c9e06040d07de665989958aaa8

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityVaupell Aerospace and Defense

Victim entityVaupell Aerospace and Defense

Incidentdiscovered Sep 12, 2016

Stated responseDeactivated the user ID used for the intrusion

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov