Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDEmploymentFinancial accountMediumResolved

Dawson County Schools

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 8, 2017

Filed

Mar 3, 2017

To disclose

23 days

Affected

3state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Dawson County Schools →

Dawson experienced a W-2 phishing scam on February 8, 2017, resulting in the unauthorized access to employees' 2016 W-2 forms containing social security numbers. Three New Hampshire residents were affected. The company notified the FBI, IRS, and state agencies, and provided identity theft protection to affected employees.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 23 days

Feb 8, 2017

Begins

Feb 8, 2017

Discovered

Mar 3, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

15 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3 affectedView incident

Name: Dawson County Schools
norm: dawson county schools
Domain: dawsoncountyschools.org

Name: Dawson County Schools
norm: dawson county schools
Domain: dawsoncountyschools.org
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 8, 2017
Breach occurred: Feb 8, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 10, 2017
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDEmploymentFinancial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Reported the incident to the FBI, IRS, and state agencies
Initial access: phishing_attachment

During the incident: Reported the incident to the FBI, IRS, and state agencies
Providing all affected employees with Identify Theft Protection for one year
Put out a company-wide message on the importance of system security
Changes made: Increasing security awareness by implementing best practices
Creating a constant state of awareness and vigilance to protect sensitive data
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 23 days(23 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/dawson-20170303.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 3, 2017
Raw hash: b944c008727f64caf66dd439bc5895611953fc1267ede21a60042ff274e10781

Reporting entityDawson County Schools

Victim entityDawson County Schools

Incidentdiscovered Feb 8, 2017

Stated responseReported the incident to the FBI, IRS, and state agencies

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov