Social EngineeringTechnologyInformationPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentFinancialMediumContained

NEO Tech

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 27, 2017

Filed

Feb 12, 2017

To disclose

16 days

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for NEO Tech →

NEO Tech experienced a phishing incident on January 27, 2017, where an employee was tricked into sending W-2 data containing SSNs, names, addresses, and income information to an unauthorized recipient. Four New Hampshire residents were affected. The company notified the IRS and state tax authorities, provided identity monitoring services, and is conducting an internal investigation.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 16 days

Jan 27, 2017

Begins

Jan 27, 2017

Discovered

Feb 12, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

16 wks faster

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

California State AGbd_d71ae2494933b63e2017-02-12Candidate

Name: NEO Tech
norm: neo tech
Domain: neotech.com

Name: NEO Tech
norm: neo tech
Domain: neotech.com
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Jan 27, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 27, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 31, 2017
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentFinancial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the IRS Criminal Investigation and ID Theft UnitNotified state tax departments
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Discovered the scam and began taking steps to address it
Provided affected employees with notice of the breach
Provided affected employees with identity monitoring and identity theft protection services for a year at no cost
Notified the IRS Criminal Investigation and ID Theft Unit
Notified state tax departments related to affected employees
Conducting a thorough internal investigation
Changes made: Committed to taking additional steps to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 days(16 days from discovery to filing)
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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California State AGFeb 12 · first

New Hampshire State AGFeb 12 · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/neo-tech-20170212.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 12, 2017
Raw hash: c0f26a0f7437ac9cb3f14a4a354ea9c0c2553cc83c1caf982489dde5e82647fa

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNEO Tech

Victim entityNEO Tech

Incidentdiscovered Jan 27, 2017

Stated responseDiscovered the scam and began taking steps to address it

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov