Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingBECTargetedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

Land Title Guaranty

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 27, 2017

Filed

Feb 7, 2017

To disclose

11 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Land Title Guaranty →2 incidents on file

Land Title Guarantee Company notified NH AG of a phishing incident where an employee sent W-2 data (names, SSNs, addresses) to attackers in March/May 2016. Discovered Jan 2017. One NH resident affected. FBI contacted. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 332 days

discovery → filing · 11 days

Mar 1, 2016

Begins

Jan 27, 2017

Discovered

Feb 7, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_5597adcd884c63cc2017-02-07Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_393a87e886626a8f2017-02-13 · +6dVerified

Name: Land Title Guaranty
norm: land title guaranty
Domain: landtitleweb.com

Name: Land Title Guaranty
norm: land title guaranty
Domain: landtitleweb.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 27, 2017
Breach occurred: Mar 1, 2016 – May 31, 2016
Undetected for: 332 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 8, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
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 Department of Justice
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Contacted the FBI concerning these incidents
Offering two years of identity protection at no cost
Provided a two-year membership in Experian’s ProtectMyID Elite credit monitoring product
Changes made: Comprehensive review of policies and procedures for safeguarding employees’ personal information
Training for employees with access to that data
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 days(11 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGFeb 7 · first

New Hampshire State AGFeb 7 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Feb 7 (MT), last Feb 13 (MA) — a 6-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/land-title-20170207.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 7, 2017
Raw hash: 3d023c84c94fa8fa9a52e9f8404d5258da09851f452f0408aa9959be3b50f1ac

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLand Title Guaranty

Victim entityLand Title Guaranty

Incidentdiscovered Jan 27, 2017

Stated responseContacted the FBI concerning these incidents

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov