Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesProfessional ServicesFinancePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)MediumContained

Employee Benefits

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 7, 2018

Filed

May 22, 2018

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

9state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Employee Benefits →2 incidents on file

Employee Benefits Corporation notified the NH AG of a phishing incident discovered March 7, 2018. Phishing emails containing participant PII (names, SSNs, emails) were sent to plan participants. No database compromise was found. 9 NH residents notified on May 22, 2018. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 76 days

Mar 7, 2018

Discovered

May 22, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+2 wks slower

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_5f59687515c9a21c2018-05-22Verified
Montana State AGbd_b1653bb158d0ab1e2018-05-22Candidate
South Carolina State AGbd_edb935858fa2931e2018-05-25 · +3dVerified

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: Employee Benefits
norm: employee benefits
Domain: ebsolutionsllc.com
Industry: Financial ServicesllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 7, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 22, 2018
Affected individuals: 9state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the New Hampshire Attorney GeneralWill provide notice to certain other state regulatorsWill provide notice to the U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesWill provide notice to the consumer reporting agencies upon authorization to do so
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Commenced an investigation with the assistance of a third-party forensic investigation firm
Provided notice to all clients with participant information contained within the database
Offered to notify participants on behalf of its clients upon authorization to do so
Cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's and state law enforcement's investigation into the unusual emails
Changes made: Offering those individuals one (1) year of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services with TransUnion
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 weeks(76 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGMay 22 · first

Montana State AGMay 22 · first

New Hampshire State AGMay 22 · first · this page

South Carolina State AG+3d

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/employee-benefits-20180522.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 22, 2018
Raw hash: 57588891d914067e76e3f36644c83dfa8a1d87d2eaaaf69a3f51dc0747d59fe0

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityEmployee Benefits

Incidentdiscovered Mar 7, 2018

Stated responseCommenced an investigation with the assistance of a third-party forensic investigation firm

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov