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Steel Services LTD

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 29, 2020

Filed

Nov 17, 2020

To disclose

25 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Steel Services LTD →

Steel Partners Holdings L.P. filed a supplemental notification with the New Hampshire Attorney General regarding a phishing incident affecting a single employee's email account. The breach exposed personal information (names, SSNs, DOBs) and health data of 3 New Hampshire residents. Steel Partners engaged forensic investigators, locked the account, reset passwords, implemented MFA, and offered two years of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 25 weeks / 172 days

May 29, 2020

Discovered

Nov 17, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+10 wks slower

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

Name: Steel Services LTD
norm: steel services
Domain: steelservicesltd.com

Name: Steel Services LTD
norm: steel services
Domain: steelservicesltd.com
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: May 29, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 17, 2020
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPHI
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Engaged a forensic security firm to assist
Locked the account
Notified all three national credit reporting agencies
Offered two years of free credit monitoring through Experian IdentityWorks
Created a call center
Changes made: Required a password reset for employees
Implemented changes to login process
Implemented stricter multi-factor authentication rules
Conducted a broader review of network
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 25 weeks(172 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/steel-partners-holdings-20201117.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 17, 2020
Raw hash: a822d96a9b1e93b640deeda517ef9d365fddb61369f9295f8ea8b5de2fd9f1de

Reporting entitySteel Services LTD

Victim entitySteel Services LTD

Incidentdiscovered May 29, 2020

Stated responseEngaged a forensic security firm to assist

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov