HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

FSC Securities Corporation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 24, 2016

Filed

Aug 10, 2016

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for FSC Securities Corporation →

FSC Securities Corporation notified the NH Attorney General of a privacy risk incident discovered on May 24, 2016. Fraud attempts against clients led to an investigation revealing that branch computers potentially enabled access to names, addresses, and SSNs of two NH residents. The branch was taken offline, scanned, and cleaned. Notices were sent to affected residents on August 5, 2016, including credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 78 days

May 24, 2016

Discovered

Aug 10, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

+3 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2 affectedView incident

Name: FSC Securities Corporation
norm: fsc securities

Name: FSC Securities Corporation
norm: fsc securities
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 24, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 5, 2016
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: The computers in the branch were taken offline
Were scanned, cleaned and deemed free of virus or malware infections prior to being brought back online
The branch server remains offline pending the recommendations from a qualified IT security consultant
FSC provided written notice to the two New Hampshires resident
Including 12 months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection paid for by our Company
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 weeks(78 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/fsc-securities-20160810.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 10, 2016
Raw hash: 2d270e1b0bba02d7e7411dd29e0af6ee484537b877e29a004bc9f63cf5c34480

Reporting entityFSC Securities Corporation

Victim entityFSC Securities Corporation

Incidentdiscovered May 24, 2016

Stated responseThe computers in the branch were taken offline

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov