Social EngineeringManufacturingManufacturingPhishingBECEmployee Data InvolvedTargetedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)FinancialMediumContained

PALM BAY INTERNATIONAL, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 26, 2017

Filed

Feb 28, 2017

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for PALM BAY INTERNATIONAL, INC. →4 incidents on file

Palm Bay International reported a phishing incident on Jan 17, 2017, where an employee emailed a colleague's W-2 (SSN, wages, address) to an attacker. Discovered Jan 26, 2017. One NH employee affected. Response included police/FBI/IRS notification and 24 months LifeLock credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 9 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 33 days

Jan 17, 2017

Begins

Jan 26, 2017

Discovered

Feb 28, 2017

Filed

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

Name: PALM BAY INTERNATIONAL, INC.
norm: palm bay
Domain: palmbay.com

Name: PALM BAY INTERNATIONAL, INC.
norm: palm bay
Domain: palmbay.com
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Jan 26, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 17, 2017
Undetected for: 9 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 30, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the Office of the Attorney General of New Hampshirecontacted the IRSfiled a police report
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Filed a police report
Notified the FBI
Contacted the IRS to notify them of the incident
Provided information to the affected individuals on how to contact the IRS and state revenue agencies to report the potential identity theft
Contacted impacted current and former employees on January 30 and 31, 2017, to alert them that the incident occurred
Changes made: Offering 24 months of credit monitoring and fraud remediation services through LifeLock
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(33 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/palm-bay-20170228.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 28, 2017
Raw hash: 811eb7ab827f924d3adbaf9cfc2b2c521113ef501732b1575ca2b9184da7a073

Reporting entityPALM BAY INTERNATIONAL, INC.

Victim entityPALM BAY INTERNATIONAL, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 26, 2017

Stated responseFiled a police report

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov