Social EngineeringPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICMediumContained
New Heights Ventures
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Full breach record for New Heights Ventures →New Heights Ventures Inc. reported a phishing incident on March 11, 2020, where an attacker used a spearphishing link to compromise a management email account. The attacker accessed the contact list and tricked employees into revealing credentials, gaining access to a cloud-based server containing employee PII, including SSNs and medical leave data. The company contained the breach, implemented 2FA, and notified affected individuals and government agencies.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-188238
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Mar 12, 2020
- Raw hash
- 59bc042964741f4c6f7e7a586e47ddfb5f5bab1f66d2263cd1d48d0ebfb0d956
Reporting entity
- Name
- New Heights Venturesnorm: new heights
- Domain
- newheightsventures.org
Victim entity
- Name
- New Heights Venturesnorm: new heights
- Domain
- newheightsventures.org
Incident
- Discovered
- Mar 11, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- contacting the various governmental agencies
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- ≤1 day(1 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.