Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

McNair & Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 17, 2017

Filed

Oct 5, 2017

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for McNair & Company →2 incidents on file

McNair & Company, Inc. notified the NH Attorney General of a security incident where phishing emails were sent from a compromised employee email account on August 17, 2017. The company secured the account and engaged a review firm. One New Hampshire resident was affected, with potential exposure of name and Social Security number. Notifications were mailed on October 5, 2017, and one year of credit monitoring was offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 49 days

Aug 17, 2017

Begins

Aug 17, 2017

Discovered

Oct 5, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

2 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

Massachusetts State AGbd_f77f9283dd087b712017-10-05Verified

Name: McNair & Company, Inc.
norm: mcnair company

Name: McNair & Company
norm: mcnair
Domain: mcnairfinancial.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 17, 2017
Breach occurred: Aug 17, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 5, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Office of the Attorney General of New Hampshire
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the employee's email account
Began an investigation
Engaged a professional review firm
Conducted a thorough review of the employee's email account
Began mailing written notifications to potentially affected individuals
Offering the potentially affected individuals a complimentary one-year membership in credit monitoring and identity theft protection services from Experian
Provided a telephone number for potentially affected individuals to call with any questions
Changes made: Providing additional training to company employees on data security and identifying phishing emails
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(49 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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Massachusetts State AGOct 5 · first

New Hampshire State AGOct 5 · first · 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/mcnair-20171005.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 5, 2017
Raw hash: bb3188de5d6aba9117cc5bd4b9821b7314a0a63bc061c728f2ead068a19595e9

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMcNair & Company, Inc.

Victim entityMcNair & Company

Incidentdiscovered Aug 17, 2017

Stated responseSecured the employee's email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov