Social EngineeringManufacturingManufacturingPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Hoshino (USA) Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 20, 2024

Filed

Apr 3, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Hoshino (USA) Inc. →2 incidents on file

Hoshino (U.S.A.) Inc. notified Nebraska AG of unauthorized access to two employee email accounts between June 20, 2024, and August 12, 2024. The incident involved phishing activity resulting in the exposure of names and Social Security numbers for one Nebraska resident. Hoshino secured accounts, hired forensic investigators, and provided 12 months of credit monitoring. No evidence of data misuse was found.

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Incident timeline

Jun 20, 2024

Begins

Jun 20, 2024

Discovered

Apr 3, 2025

Filed

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

New Hampshire State AGbd_bbaab3d513f3f88e2025-04-03Candidate

Name: Hoshino (USA) Inc.
norm: hoshino usa
Domain: hoshinousainfo.com

Name: Hoshino (USA) Inc.
norm: hoshino usa
Domain: hoshinousainfo.com
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Jun 20, 2024
Breach occurred: Jun 20, 2024 – Aug 12, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 3, 2025
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: providing written notice of this incident to relevant state regulators
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the two email accounts
Hired professional forensic investigators
Providing access to credit monitoring services for twelve (12) months through IDX
Providing written notice of this incident to relevant state regulators
Providing notice of this event to the three major credit reporting agencies
Changes made: Implement additional safeguards and training for its employees
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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 AGApr 3 · first

Nebraska State AGApr 3 · 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://nebraska.gov/ago/data-breach/documents/6224275d-ea61-41f3-8c17-48a99e3e85a8.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 3, 2025
Raw hash: bc2cabe652908c79c6cab2ff54b2e68390148094c6346c5116fea7b641337b1a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHoshino (USA) Inc.

Victim entityHoshino (USA) Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jun 20, 2024

Stated responseSecured the two email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancenebraska.gov