Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPHIMediumContained

FIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 5, 2020

Filed

Aug 19, 2020

To disclose

15 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for FIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP →

First Pacific Advisors, LP notified the NH AG of a phishing incident affecting two employee email accounts. Unauthorized access occurred May 2-5, 2020. Data present included PII and PHI, though no evidence of viewing was found. Notices sent Aug 20, 2020. Remediation included password resets, forensic investigation, and 24-month credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 3 days

discovery → filing · 15 weeks / 106 days

May 2, 2020

Begins

May 5, 2020

Discovered

Aug 19, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+7 wks slower

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_ad4ed5e5d2beadbe2020-08-20 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_3fa3e5eb886e9ef52020-09-01 · +13dVerified
Montana State AGbd_82906facf3da7e112020-09-02 · +14dCandidate

Name: FIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP
norm: first pacific advisors

Name: FIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP
norm: first pacific advisors
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 5, 2020
Breach occurred: May 2, 2020 – May 5, 2020
Undetected for: 3 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 20, 2020
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPHI
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the email accounts
Launched an investigation with the assistance of an independent expert computer forensics firm
Reset the passwords for the affected email accounts
Required all other employees not affected by the incident to reset their passwords
Contacted federal and state authorities
Changes made: Implementing additional safeguards designed to protect its network
Increased the intensity of its phishing testing, including targeted training
Providing complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services for 24 months
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 weeks(106 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGAug 19 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+13d

Montana State AG+14d

Pattern: first filing Aug 19 (NH), last Sep 2 (MT) — a 14-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/first-pacific-advisors-20200819.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 19, 2020
Raw hash: 6e3e59f8cbb2ed14b03fd6ada303e39b94c195676f92f881c6d90f8c1cfa38ca

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP

Victim entityFIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP

Incidentdiscovered May 5, 2020

Stated responseSecured the email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov