Social EngineeringTechnologyInformationPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

YourEncore, Inc.

bd_dcd280a9906d5a5c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 7, 2016

Filed

Mar 21, 2016

To disclose

14 days

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for YourEncore, Inc. →

YourEncore, Inc. notified the NH Attorney General that a phishing scam resulted in the erroneous email transmission of 2015 W-2 tax information for current and former employees to an unauthorized third party on March 7, 2016. Two New Hampshire residents were affected. The company notified employees and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 14 days

Mar 7, 2016

Begins

Mar 7, 2016

Discovered

Mar 21, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

17 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_2f5a32c8a63d23132016-03-24 · +3dVerified

Name: YourEncore, Inc.
norm: yourencore
Domain: yourencore.com

Name: YourEncore, Inc.
norm: yourencore
Domain: yourencore.com
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Mar 7, 2016
Breach occurred: Mar 7, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 7, 2016
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General Joseph Foster, Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Working with the Federal Bureau of Investigations to investigate the incident
Sent preliminary notification to current and former employees on March 7, 2016
Sent second notification on March 16, 2016 by U.S. mail and/or email
Contracted with a third party to provide two years of credit monitoring and identity theft protection
Changes made: Taking steps internally to prevent any future similar occurrence
Set up a special website for additional questions
Set up an internal email address for the response team
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 days(14 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 21 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+3d

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/your-encore-20160321.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 21, 2016
Raw hash: a11cbeb32792fb133d3a4f5fbb6818f31226d664168006db2177b8f2be78a11b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityYourEncore, Inc.

Victim entityYourEncore, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 7, 2016

Stated responseWorking with the Federal Bureau of Investigations to investigate the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov