Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedCredentialsPIIFinancialLowContained

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 13, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

26state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation →8 incidents on file

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation notified the NH Attorney General of a phishing campaign (Aug 2020–Jan 2021) compromising four email accounts. 26 NH residents affected. Fairway engaged outside security firms, notified customers, offered 5 years of credit monitoring, and enhanced employee training and security controls.

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Incident timeline

Aug 1, 2020

Begins

Apr 13, 2021

Filed

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_504ed9a98d2874782021-04-12 · +1dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_65898170aa86a1d12021-04-12 · +1dVerified

Name: Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation
norm: fairway independent mortgage

Name: Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation
norm: fairway independent mortgage
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Aug 1, 2020 – Jan 15, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 1, 2021
Affected individuals: 26state-resident count only
Data types: CredentialsPIIFinancial
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Engaged two outside security firms to assist with the source and scope of the breach
Notified affected customers
Offered each impacted customer five years of free credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services through Experian
Changes made: Increased employee education via additional training courses required for all Fairway teammates
Adjusted internal security protocols
Continues to communicate to internal employees regarding the importance of knowing the identity of the sender of all received emails
Identified areas for improvement within its email system and endpoint protection controls
Identified strategic new controls to shore up defenses to future phishing attempts
Deployed new controls to blunt future attacks
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 · 3 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGApr 12 · first

Massachusetts State AGApr 12 · first

New Hampshire State AG+1d · 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/fairway-independent-mortgage-20210413.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 13, 2021
Raw hash: cf7ca571180b8463be5cc1c00564df3798d7ce0abddb3cf4f13c398264718f49

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFairway Independent Mortgage Corporation

Victim entityFairway Independent Mortgage Corporation

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseEngaged two outside security firms to assist with the source and scope of the breach

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov