Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Payroll Management, Inc

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 8, 2025

Filed

Apr 14, 2025

To disclose

6 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Payroll Management, Inc →

Payroll Management, Inc. reported a data breach in Maine affecting 1 individual. On April 8, 2025, a client service representative received a phishing email from a compromised client account. The attacker obtained a pay stub containing the victim's name, SSN, and partial bank account details. The incident was contained, and the victim was notified on April 14, 2025, with identity theft protection offered.

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Maine clockDiscovered Apr 8, 2025 → Filed with AG Apr 14, 20256d ✓ ME AG ≤30d6 days discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 days

Apr 8, 2025

Begins

Apr 8, 2025

Discovered

Apr 14, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

18 wks faster

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

Name: Payroll Management, Inc
norm: payroll management
Domain: payrollmgt.com

Name: Payroll Management, Inc
norm: payroll management
Domain: payrollmgt.com
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Apr 8, 2025
Breach occurred: Apr 8, 2025
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 14, 2025
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Filed notification with Maine Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Ceased correspondence with the compromised email account
Alerted our client contact to the suspected hack of their email account
Offering one year of Identity Theft Protection provided by Aura
Changes made: Implementing additional safeguards to better detect suspicious activity and to prevent similar incidents in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 days(6 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: ME AG ≤30d · 6d
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
Maine
Discovered: Apr 8, 2025
→ Filed with AG: Apr 14, 2025
6d 30 days ME AG ≤30d

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
Maine	Discovered: Apr 8, 2025 → Filed with AG: Apr 14, 2025	6d	30 days	ME AG ≤30d

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://www.maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318/d5f38d22-aba6-4c72-a4ad-7f1d1f597c0d.html
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 14, 2025
Raw hash: 26ad1b6ca1267846564eb4f6bd1c81a137626150aa40e44c1cc4a3f340b8dda2

Reporting entityPayroll Management, Inc

Victim entityPayroll Management, Inc

Incidentdiscovered Apr 8, 2025

Stated responseCeased correspondence with the compromised email account

ComplianceME AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.maine.gov