HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

Woodruff Sawyer & Co.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 18, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Woodruff Sawyer & Co. →6 incidents on file

Woodruff Sawyer & Co., an insurance consulting brokerage, reported unauthorized access to employee email accounts between March 2, 2020, and April 30, 2020. An unknown actor used valid credentials to access emails, potentially exposing names and Social Security numbers of approximately one New Hampshire resident. The company engaged forensic investigators, reset credentials, implemented MFA, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring. The investigation is ongoing.

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Incident timeline

Mar 2, 2020

Begins

Feb 18, 2021

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_ab550ebdcc10ce7c2021-03-09 · +19dVerified

Name: Woodruff Sawyer & Co.
norm: woodruff sawyer
Domain: woodruffsawyer.com

Name: Woodruff Sawyer & Co.
norm: woodruff sawyer
Domain: woodruffsawyer.com
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Mar 2, 2020 – Apr 30, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 4, 2021
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Immediately took steps to secure the email accounts by changing the account credentials
Launched an investigation, which included working with a third-party forensic investigator
Reset the email account passwords
Confirmed the security of relevant systems
Reviewed policies and procedures
Implemented additional safeguards and training to its employees including multi-factor authentication across the organization
Providing the impacted individuals with access to twelve months (12) of credit and identity monitoring services, through Kroll, at no cost to these individuals
Providing impacted individuals with guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Changes made: Reviewed policies and procedures
Implemented additional safeguards
Provided additional training to our employees on data privacy and security
Implemented multi-factor authentication across the organization
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGFeb 18 · first · this page

Indiana State AG+19d

Pattern: first filing Feb 18 (NH), last Mar 9 (IN) — a 19-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/woodruff-sawyer-20210218.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 18, 2021
Raw hash: 04f5f409d8d1135fca40fb249ef5ec98d0c37d6d175ea55f82fd244bfc73f9da

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWoodruff Sawyer & Co.

Victim entityWoodruff Sawyer & Co.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImmediately took steps to secure the email accounts by changing the account credentials

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov