Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingStolen CredentialsTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCredentialsMediumContained

Christie's Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 24, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Christie's Inc. →2 incidents on file

Christie's Inc. notified the NH AG of a phishing incident affecting 3 employee email accounts. Unauthorized access occurred in H1 2016. Affected data included names, addresses, phone numbers, credit/debit card numbers, DOB, and government ID. 4 NH residents affected. Notifications sent March 2017 with 1-year identity protection.

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Incident timeline

Jan 1, 2016

Begins

Mar 24, 2017

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_068b5ca42d6f69222017-03-29 · +5dVerified

Name: Christie's Inc.
norm: christie s

Name: Christie's Inc.
norm: christie s
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Jan 1, 2016 – Jun 30, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 15, 2017
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCredentials
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Reported the incident to law enforcement
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Retained a top computer forensics firm to help it conduct a thorough investigation of the incident
Performed an extensive review of the relevant email boxes for potentially impacted personal information
Reported the incident to law enforcement and will continue to cooperate with any investigation
Changes made: Implemented additional security measures designed to protect Christie's email accounts and personal information, including two-factor authentication for remote access to its email system
Undertaken an employee education initiative to inform employees about phishing scams and how to guard against them
Will continue to deliver additional employee training about email safety and recognizing phishing emails
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 · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGMar 24 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Mar 24 (NH), last Mar 29 (MA) — a 5-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/christies-20170324.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 24, 2017
Raw hash: 29c30a5a9d656a224f387fb88df85349142328b9da97fbda992893348b862037

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityChristie's Inc.

Victim entityChristie's Inc.

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseRetained a top computer forensics firm to help it conduct a thorough investigation of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov