Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingStolen CredentialsTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Faulk & Winkler LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 1, 2019

Filed

Jul 8, 2019

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

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Faulk & Winkler LLC notified individuals of a phishing incident discovered April 1, 2019, affecting one employee's email account. The breach potentially exposed PII including names, DOBs, SSNs, driver's licenses, and financial account numbers. No evidence of misuse was found. The firm provided credit monitoring and implemented MFA and enhanced monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 98 days

Apr 1, 2019

Discovered

Jul 8, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

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

Name: Faulk & Winkler LLC
norm: faulk winkler

Name: Faulk & Winkler LLC
norm: faulk winkler
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Apr 1, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 8, 2019
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Changed the employee’s password and email credentials
Retained an independent computer forensics company to conduct an extensive IT investigation
Providing you with complimentary resources to help protect your identity
Offering identity theft protection services through ID Experts
Changes made: Implementation of a multi-factor authentication for all email accounts
Enhanced auditing and monitoring of all mailboxes
Implementation of an electronic data loss prevention policy for sensitive information with mandatory destruction schedule
Implementation of a recurring employee awareness training
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 weeks(98 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/faulk-winkler-20190708.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 8, 2019
Raw hash: 4e3f5238ae415ad4dc4c5ed5f131179f29073cc7e5589c944d72f55ff7372f1e

Reporting entityFaulk & Winkler LLC

Victim entityFaulk & Winkler LLC

Incidentdiscovered Apr 1, 2019

Stated responseChanged the employee’s password and email credentials

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov