Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingBECStolen CredentialsWire FraudCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Curtis & Croft, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 2, 2022

Filed

Mar 9, 2023

To disclose

27 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Curtis & Croft, LLC →

Curtis & Croft, LLC, a South Carolina law firm, detected business email compromise on September 2, 2022. An unauthorized party accessed a business email account, likely in furtherance of attempted wire fraud. The incident potentially exposed first name, last name, and Social Security numbers of clients found in real estate closing documentation. The firm secured the email environment, engaged forensic specialists, and is offering 12 months of credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 27 weeks / 188 days

Sep 2, 2022

Discovered

Mar 9, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+8 wks slower

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

Name: Curtis & Croft, LLC
norm: curtis croft

Name: Curtis & Croft, LLC
norm: curtis croft
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 2, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 9, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the email environment by changing passwords for the impacted account
Engaged third-party forensic specialists to assist with securing the email environment and investigating the extent of the unauthorized activity
Conducting an investigation with the assistance of IT specialists
Confirming the security of our email environment
Changes made: Reviewing and enhancing our technical safeguards to prevent a similar incident
Providing access to Single Bureau Credit Monitoring/Single Bureau Credit Report/Single Bureau Credit Score services at no charge for twelve months
Providing proactive fraud assistance through Cyberscout through Identity Force
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 weeks(188 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/curtis-croft-20230309.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 9, 2023
Raw hash: 9200ed456e39abb3aa8cc55d3820256d4bd5cc5f971b7c256a47fb883fac82e3

Reporting entityCurtis & Croft, LLC

Victim entityCurtis & Croft, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Sep 2, 2022

Stated responseSecured the email environment by changing passwords for the impacted account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov