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Social EngineeringTechnologyFinancial ServicesInformationPhishingBECEmployee Data InvolvedCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentMediumContained

Crane Payment Innovations, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 7, 2016

Filed

Jun 8, 2016

To disclose

≤1 day

Affected

15state residents only

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Crane Payment Innovations, Inc.

Crane Payment Innovations, Inc. (CPI) reported a business email compromise incident on June 7, 2016, where an employee responded to a spoofed email requesting W-2 information. The attacker obtained Social Security numbers, home addresses, and wage information for 15 New Hampshire residents. CPI notified the FBI and offered two years of identity protection services.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · ≤1 day / 1 days

Jun 7, 2016

Begins

Jun 7, 2016

Discovered

Jun 8, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

19 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed15 affectedView incident

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.