Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsMulti-Stage ChainCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowActive

Second Alpha Partners

bd_b399f305766ef973 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Nov 24, 2022

Filed

Feb 24, 2023

To disclose

13 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Second Alpha Partners →

Second Alpha Partners notified the NH AG of unauthorized access to an employee email account containing investor PII. Access occurred between Oct 12 and Nov 25, 2022, and via a separate phishing attempt on Dec 20, 2022. Discovered Nov 24, 2022. One NH resident affected. Investigation ongoing.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 43 days

discovery → filing · 13 weeks / 92 days

Oct 12, 2022

Begins

Nov 24, 2022

Discovered

Jan 23, 2023

Scope determined

Feb 24, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+5 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_faff10866ae2679e2023-02-21 · +3dVerified

Name: Second Alpha Partners
norm: second alpha

Name: Second Alpha Partners
norm: second alpha
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 24, 2022
Breach occurred: Oct 12, 2022 – Nov 25, 2022
Undetected for: 43 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: Jan 23, 2023
Notification sent: Feb 21, 2023
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Resetting the email account password
Initiated an investigation with the assistance of a third party forensic firm
Engaging a third party forensic investigator
Took action to remove the unauthorized access to the affected email account
Changes made: Offering eighteen months of complimentary identity theft and credit monitoring services through Kroll
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 weeks(92 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 AGFeb 21 · first

New Hampshire State AG+3d · 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/second-alpha-partners-20230224.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 24, 2023
Raw hash: 656fe1317dc1bba00e08c468ef7c75dfc8053097eaa9d822d6d6bdf398902be3

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySecond Alpha Partners

Victim entitySecond Alpha Partners

Incidentdiscovered Nov 24, 2022

Stated responseResetting the email account password

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov