Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Sterling & Sterling, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 17, 2019

Filed

Jul 25, 2019

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

12state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Sterling & Sterling, LLC →2 incidents on file

Sterling & Sterling, LLC d/b/a SterlingRisk notified the NH Attorney General of a phishing incident affecting 12 NH residents. An unauthorized person accessed an employee email account on April 3, 2019. Names and SSNs were exposed. Notification letters were mailed July 23, 2019, offering credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 14 days

discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 99 days

Apr 3, 2019

Begins

Apr 17, 2019

Discovered

Jul 25, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_fe1cd2d9494ec6b12019-07-23 · +2dCandidate

Name: Sterling & Sterling, LLC
norm: sterling sterling

Name: Sterling & Sterling, LLC
norm: sterling sterling
Also named: Sterling & Sterling, LLCdba oflegal entity
SterlingRiskdba oftrade name
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Apr 17, 2019
Breach occurred: Apr 3, 2019
Undetected for: 14 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 23, 2019
Affected individuals: 12state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the employee's email account
Engaged a leading cyber security firm to assist with an investigation
Reviewed the full contents of the employee's email account
Established a dedicated call center
Offered one year of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Experian's IdentityWorks
Changes made: Implementing additional security enhancements
Providing additional education and training to employees
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 weeks(99 days from discovery to filing)
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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California State AGJul 23 · first

New Hampshire 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/sterling-sterling-20190724.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 25, 2019
Raw hash: 91a48d7806b1f0cef16e847418e8c36e8b87df819e70bd64c12216e5da54c853

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySterling & Sterling, LLC

Victim entitySterling & Sterling, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Apr 17, 2019

Stated responseSecured the employee's email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov