Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Southern Tide LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 13, 2020

Filed

Aug 12, 2020

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Southern Tide LLC →2 incidents on file

Southern Tide, LLC notified the NH AG of a phishing incident compromising employee email accounts. Unauthorized access occurred March 19, 2020, discovered April 13, 2020. 2 NH residents affected; names and SSNs exposed. Notifications sent Aug 12, 2020, including 1 year credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 25 days

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 121 days

Mar 19, 2020

Begins

Apr 13, 2020

Discovered

Aug 12, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+10 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_3dd3892e190b2e052020-08-12Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_2fe6c432ce802f212020-08-17 · +5dVerified

Name: Southern Tide LLC
norm: southern tide

Name: Southern Tide LLC
norm: southern tide
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Apr 13, 2020
Breach occurred: Mar 19, 2020
Undetected for: 25 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 12, 2020
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Investigated
Promptly changing passwords to block the unauthorized access from this incident
Continuing to train our employees to recognize phishing scams
Enhance our security measures
Offering one (1) year of free credit monitoring and $1 million in identity theft insurance through Experian
Changes made: Continuing to train our employees to recognize phishing scams to prevent something like this from happening in the future
Enhance our security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(121 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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Indiana State AGAug 12 · first

New Hampshire State AGAug 12 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Aug 12 (IN), last Aug 17 (MA) — a 5-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/southern-tide-20200812.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 12, 2020
Raw hash: a6c58bff05f3eb9dc378acfa318e1b973c5434fd62d2b23eef99ad1099bb941a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySouthern Tide LLC

Victim entitySouthern Tide LLC

Incidentdiscovered Apr 13, 2020

Stated responseInvestigated

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov