Social EngineeringTechnologyInformationPhishingBECTargetedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialEmploymentMediumContained

Acronis

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 29, 2016

Filed

Mar 4, 2016

To disclose

4 days

Affected

17state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Acronis →

Acronis, Inc. notified the NH AG of a BEC incident where a hacker spoofed the CEO's email to trick an employee into sending W-2 forms containing PII/SSN to 17 NH residents. Incident occurred Feb 28-29, 2016. Acronis notified law enforcement, strengthened controls, and provided 2 years of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 4 days

Feb 28, 2016

Begins

Feb 29, 2016

Discovered

Mar 4, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

18 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

Massachusetts State AGbd_88300cf3abeb07c22016-03-08 · +4dVerified

Name: JONES DAY
norm: jones day
Domain: jonesday.com

Name: Acronis
norm: acronis
Domain: acronis.com
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Feb 29, 2016
Breach occurred: Feb 28, 2016 – Feb 29, 2016
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 4, 2016
Affected individuals: 17state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancialEmployment
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 Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified law enforcement
Strengthened internal controls
Provided credit protection services for two years, free-of-charge
Changes made: Strengthened internal controls
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 days(4 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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New Hampshire State AGMar 4 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+4d

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/acronis-20160304.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 4, 2016
Raw hash: a66cb2e286eb74920e089106e9241c3d4e590c80aededecd5b55b753b26248e0

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityJONES DAY

Victim entityAcronis

Incidentdiscovered Feb 29, 2016

Stated responseNotified law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov