Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingBECTargetedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumActive

The Mitchell Gold Co. d/b/a Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 24, 2017

Filed

Feb 3, 2017

To disclose

10 days

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for The Mitchell Gold Co. d/b/a Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams →

Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams notified NH AG of an email spoofing attack on Jan 23, 2017, where an attacker impersonated the CEO to obtain 2016 employee W-2 forms. Discovered Jan 24. 2 NH residents affected. Data included names, addresses, SSNs, and wages. Response included credit monitoring via Equifax and notifications to IRS/FBI.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 10 days

Jan 23, 2017

Begins

Jan 24, 2017

Discovered

Feb 3, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_8bde6e23a9ef409f2017-02-03Verified

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: The Mitchell Gold Co. d/b/a Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams
norm: the mitchell gold co d b a mitchell gold bob williams
Also named: The Mitchell Gold Co.dba oflegal entity
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williamsdba oftrade name
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Jan 24, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 23, 2017
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 3, 2017
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the IRSNotified the Alexander County Sheriff's OfficeNotified the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)Notified the New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Provided all potentially affected individuals access to two free years of credit and identity monitoring services through Equifax
Established a dedicated hotline for potentially affected individuals
Provided guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Provided contact details for national consumer reporting agencies
Provided notice to the IRS, local police, and the FBI
Provided notice to other state regulators as necessary
Changes made: Implementing additional safeguards
Providing additional mandatory training to employees on safeguarding the privacy and security of information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 days(10 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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Massachusetts State AGFeb 3 · first

New Hampshire State AGFeb 3 · 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/mitchell-gold-20170203.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 3, 2017
Raw hash: fbd101645d5b3e5319565fc4947d7bfd1155dd28f342feb6d379cc842dee819e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityThe Mitchell Gold Co. d/b/a Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams

Incidentdiscovered Jan 24, 2017

Stated responseProvided all potentially affected individuals access to two free years of credit and identity monitoring services through Equifax

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov