Social EngineeringInformationPhishingMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentMediumContained

NEO Tech

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 27, 2017

Filed

Feb 12, 2017

To disclose

16 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for NEO Tech →

NEO Tech experienced an email phishing incident on January 27, 2017, resulting in the misdelivery of employee W-2 forms containing names, addresses, Social Security Numbers, and income data to an unauthorized recipient. The company notified the IRS and FTB and offered one year of identity protection services via Experian to affected employees.

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California clockDiscovered Jan 27, 2017 → Notified Feb 13, 201717d ✓ CA 60-day OK16 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 16 days

Jan 27, 2017

Begins

Jan 27, 2017

Discovered

Feb 12, 2017

Filed

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

New Hampshire State AGbd_ce4671cee031404a2017-02-12Verified

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

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

Discovered: Jan 27, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 27, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 13, 2017
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmployment
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 Phishing
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Contacted the IRS Criminal Investigators and ID Theft UnitContacted the affected State Franchise Tax Board (FTB) theft units
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Contacted the IRS Criminal Investigators and ID Theft Unit
Contacted the affected State Franchise Tax Board (FTB) theft units
Provided identity monitoring and identity theft protection services for a year at no cost to you from Experian
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 days(16 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 17d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Jan 27, 2017
→ Notified: Feb 13, 2017
17d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jan 27, 2017 → Notified: Feb 13, 2017	17d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGFeb 12 · first

California 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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-66307
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: 70b197168236539a5f5958e3a40f45d16638ab25ba2ebdb11b678817d0f80d09

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNEO Tech

Victim entityNEO Tech

Incidentdiscovered Jan 27, 2017

Stated responseContacted the IRS Criminal Investigators and ID Theft Unit

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov