Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingBECTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentMediumActive

TRANSPERFECT GLOBAL, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 17, 2017

Filed

Feb 10, 2017

To disclose

24 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for TRANSPERFECT GLOBAL, INC. →

TransPerfect Global, Inc. disclosed a Business Email Compromise (BEC) incident on January 17, 2017. An attacker spoofed the CEO's email to fraudulently obtain 2015 W-2 forms and January 2017 payroll data (including SSNs and bank routing numbers) from employees. The company notified law enforcement (FBI, NYPD), the IRS, and state regulators, and offered 24 months of identity protection via Experian to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 24 days

Jan 17, 2017

Begins

Jan 17, 2017

Discovered

Feb 10, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

14 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_17799514d4886c582017-02-10Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_96c34c2fb06a1ed32017-02-10Verified

Name: TRANSPERFECT GLOBAL, INC.
norm: transperfect global

Name: TRANSPERFECT GLOBAL, INC.
norm: transperfect global
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 17, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 17, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 20, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmployment
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified NYPDNotified federal law enforcementNotified IRSNotified state Attorneys GeneralCoordinated with state tax authorities
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Arranged for an outside vendor to protect identity at no cost
Mailing information to all impacted current and former TransPerfect team members
Established call center services to answer questions
Reported this incident to the NYPD and to federal law enforcement
Notifying any necessary state regulators
Reporting this incident to the IRS
Contacted the FBI, certain state tax authorities, local law enforcement, and relevant state Attorneys General
Coordinated with the IRS and state tax authorities
Changes made: Implementing additional safeguards
Establishing protocols for responding to email requests for sensitive information
Providing additional mandatory training to employees on safeguarding the privacy and security of information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 24 days(24 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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Massachusetts State AGFeb 10 · first

New Hampshire State AGFeb 10 · first

Montana State AGFeb 10 · 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/TransPerfect-Global-Inc..pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 10, 2017
Raw hash: f26b461d11b815d5876f1006022441c04094c72d73d0e09666775fcabdd6328b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTRANSPERFECT GLOBAL, INC.

Victim entityTRANSPERFECT GLOBAL, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 17, 2017

Stated responseArranged for an outside vendor to protect identity at no cost

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov