HackingOtherStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data EncryptedIdentity (basic)Financial accountCredentialsLowActive

Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA)

bd_d0adc6750c212ad7 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jun 27, 2016

Filed

Jul 26, 2016

To disclose

29 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) →

SEMA notified NH AG of a third-party vendor (Comnet) breach. Unauthorized access occurred April 23-24, 2016. Data potentially impacted: PII and credit card info. 1 NH resident affected. Vendor terminated. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 65 days

discovery → filing · 29 days

Apr 23, 2016

Begins

Jun 27, 2016

Discovered

Jul 26, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

Part of Comnet Marketing Group supply-chain incident (2016) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_2978e6af74f47b602016-07-27 · +1dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_60ab2e1ec1d308652016-07-28 · +2dVerified

Name: Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA)
norm: specialty equipment market association sema

Name: Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA)
norm: specialty equipment market association sema
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Jun 27, 2016
Breach occurred: Apr 23, 2016 – Apr 24, 2016
Undetected for: 65 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 27, 2016
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountCredentials
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1485 Data Destruction
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire pursuant to N.H. Rev. Stat. 359-C:20
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Comnet hired experts to assist in the investigation and response
Comnet referred this matter to appropriate law enforcement
SEMA terminated its relationship with Comnet
Changes made: Offering one (1) year of complimentary credit monitoring through Equifax to the affected New Hampshire resident
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 29 days(29 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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New Hampshire State AGJul 26 · first · this page

Montana State AG+1d

Massachusetts State AG+2d

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/specialty-equipment-20160726.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 26, 2016
Raw hash: b0a925a6116cbf452dcc4e1eeed64eae6d5c708adaa8cf7b22fe38d223aa5f50

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySpecialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA)

Victim entitySpecialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA)

Incidentdiscovered Jun 27, 2016

Stated responseComnet hired experts to assist in the investigation and response

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov