Social EngineeringTechnologyInformationPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumResolved

GLU Mobile Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 21, 2016

Filed

Jun 1, 2016

To disclose

11 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for GLU Mobile Inc. →

Glu Mobile disclosed a data breach where an employee was targeted by a spear-phishing scam impersonating the CEO. The employee uploaded 2015 W-2 forms containing names, addresses, SSNs, and earnings for most employees. Glu notified the FBI, IRS, and state authorities, and provided 3 years of LifeLock identity theft protection to affected employees.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 11 days

May 20, 2016

Begins

May 21, 2016

Discovered

Jun 1, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

9 wks faster

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

Name: GLU Mobile Inc.
norm: glu mobile

Name: GLU Mobile Inc.
norm: glu mobile
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: May 21, 2016
Breach occurred: May 20, 2016
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 31, 2016
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the FBINotified the IRSNotified state taxing authorities
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified the FBI, the IRS and state taxing authorities of the incident
Partnered with LifeLock to provide its UltimatePlus identity theft protection product for three years at no charge
Changes made: Analyzing where process improvements are needed and will implement those changes to help prevent any similar accident from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 days(11 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Glu-Mobile.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 1, 2016
Raw hash: 56a2716f1e8c21c94308ba1dbc59618d72c8fd4d697f6509d112ecce7beeafcb

Reporting entityGLU Mobile Inc.

Victim entityGLU Mobile Inc.

Incidentdiscovered May 21, 2016

Stated responseNotified the FBI, the IRS and state taxing authorities of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov