Social EngineeringManufacturingManufacturingPretextingStolen CredentialsTargetedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

CONVATEC INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 7, 2016

Filed

Mar 9, 2016

To disclose

2 days

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for CONVATEC INC. →

ConvaTec, Inc. notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a data breach affecting 4 NH residents. On Feb 29, 2016, a criminal impersonating a senior official obtained employee PII including SSNs. ConvaTec discovered the incident on March 7, 2016, notified law enforcement, and is providing 24 months of identity protection services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 7 days

discovery → filing · 2 days

Feb 29, 2016

Begins

Mar 7, 2016

Discovered

Mar 9, 2016

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_e6570dbad14493cf2016-03-14 · +5dVerified

Name: CONVATEC INC.
norm: convatec

Name: CONVATEC INC.
norm: convatec
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Mar 7, 2016
Breach occurred: Feb 29, 2016
Undetected for: 7 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 9, 2016
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Promptly reported the incident to law enforcement
Actively cooperating with the authorities in their investigation
Engaged AllClear ID to provide identity protection services
Changes made: Providing all affected individuals with twenty-four (24) months of identity protection services through AllClear ID
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 2 days(2 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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New Hampshire State AGMar 9 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Mar 9 (NH), last Mar 14 (MA) — a 5-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/convatec-20160309.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 9, 2016
Raw hash: 97224178bcd95f3f55359688821564a3dd0782b548a8c2e2e7adb5e2936a7169

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCONVATEC INC.

Victim entityCONVATEC INC.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 7, 2016

Stated responsePromptly reported the incident to law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov