Social EngineeringEnergy & UtilitiesUtilitiesPhishingTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumContained

GAMESA WIND US LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 17, 2016

Filed

Jun 27, 2016

To disclose

10 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for GAMESA WIND US LLC →2 incidents on file

Gamesa Wind US, LLC notified Montana employees of a phishing incident on June 17, 2016, where spoofed emails from the parent company's Executive Chairman tricked an employee into submitting 2015 W-2 forms containing PII and SSNs. The company reported the incident to the FBI, IRS, and state AGs, and provided 24 months of identity theft protection.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 days

Jun 17, 2016

Begins

Jun 17, 2016

Discovered

Jun 27, 2016

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: GAMESA WIND US LLC
norm: gamesa wind us

Name: GAMESA WIND US LLC
norm: gamesa wind us
Industry: Energy & Utilitiesllm

Discovered: Jun 17, 2016
Breach occurred: Jun 17, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 27, 2016
Affected individuals: 1state-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: reported the incident to law enforcement and state attorney generalsreported the incident to the FBI and IRS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Reported the incident to law enforcement and state attorney generals
Reported the incident to the FBI and IRS
Investigating how this incident occurred and engaging outside professionals to assist in assessing ways to prevent or guard against future incidents
Engaging a reputable national service to provide all affected individuals in a 24-month identity theft protection and monitoring program
Changes made: Engaging outside professionals to assist in assessing ways to prevent or guard against future incidents
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.

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Gamesa-Wind.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 27, 2016
Raw hash: faf6891473d3e362523fd0322598b69142242eb12785842ce3371805c22576ab

Reporting entityGAMESA WIND US LLC

Victim entityGAMESA WIND US LLC

Incidentdiscovered Jun 17, 2016

Stated responseReported the incident to law enforcement and state attorney generals

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov