Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

WEI Mortgage

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 20, 2017

Filed

Dec 8, 2017

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

20state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for WEI Mortgage →2 incidents on file

WEI Mortgage LLC notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a phishing attack that compromised employee email accounts, exposing personal information (SSN, DOB, bank account, address, name) of approximately 20 NH residents. Unauthorized access occurred between September 13 and 28, 2017. The company engaged forensic investigators, notified law enforcement, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 7 days

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 79 days

Sep 13, 2017

Begins

Sep 20, 2017

Discovered

Dec 8, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+3 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_ed4e7a42d63e15722017-12-08Verified
California State AGbd_eff1476b3e5e92832017-12-08Verified
Montana State AGbd_f9859b9eb47279842017-12-08Candidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_037cff157a88481d2018-01-03 · +26dCandidate

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Oregon State AGbd_7165bea61db6abe52018-01-03 · +26dVerified

Name: WEI Mortgage
norm: wei mortgage

Name: WEI Mortgage
norm: wei mortgage
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 20, 2017
Breach occurred: Sep 13, 2017 – Sep 28, 2017
Undetected for: 7 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 8, 2017
Affected individuals: 20state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the New Hampshire Attorney Generalreported this incident to federal law enforcement
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Launched an investigation to confirm the security of its network and determine the nature and scope of the incident
Working with third-party forensic investigators
Reported this incident to federal law enforcement
Mailing written notice to those individuals whose data was present in the impacted emails
Offering access to two (2) years of credit and identity monitoring services, including identity restoration services, through AllClear ID
Changes made: Educate our employees about phishing scams
Confirm the ongoing security of our networks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 weeks(79 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

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Massachusetts State AGDec 8 · first

California State AGDec 8 · first

Montana State AGDec 8 · first

New Hampshire State AGDec 8 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+26d

Oregon State AG+26d

Pattern: first filing Dec 8 (MA), last Jan 3 (OR) — a 26-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/wei-mortgage-20171208.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 8, 2017
Raw hash: 871a29a322a175026a25b99cb6efdf4db2cc7e201491bade3b64756466e3e613

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWEI Mortgage

Victim entityWEI Mortgage

Incidentdiscovered Sep 20, 2017

Stated responseLaunched an investigation to confirm the security of its network and determine the nature and scope of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov