Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)MediumContained

Copeland Auto Group

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 2, 2025

Filed

Oct 22, 2025

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Copeland Auto Group →

Copeland Auto Group notified the NH AG of a phishing incident on Sept 2, 2025, compromising one employee email account. Data exposed included names, SSNs, driver's licenses, passports, payment card info, financial accounts, and health info. One NH resident notified on Oct 16, 2025. Remediation included MFA and forensic investigation.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 50 days

Sep 2, 2025

Discovered

Oct 22, 2025

Filed

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Copeland Auto Group
norm: copeland auto

Name: Copeland Auto Group
norm: copeland auto
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Sep 2, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 16, 2025
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured its email environment
Changed the password associated with the impacted email account
Engaged independent computer forensic experts to assist
Offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity protection services through Kroll
Changes made: Ensured multi factor authentication is implemented throughout the email environment
Installed new threat detection and log monitoring software on the email tenant
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(50 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/copeland-auto-20251022.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 22, 2025
Raw hash: 06db8107e3ca6cc1e3618ea1dfb13a565dbacf9980f4e1db7cfc407a3f003452

Reporting entityCopeland Auto Group

Victim entityCopeland Auto Group

Incidentdiscovered Sep 2, 2025

Stated responseSecured its email environment

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov