Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

FirstBank

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 9, 2021

Filed

Mar 26, 2021

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for FirstBank →2 incidents on file

FirstBank notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a security incident involving unauthorized access to employee email accounts. The breach affected 4 New Hampshire residents, exposing names, SSNs, and financial account numbers. FirstBank blocked access, retained investigators, and sent notification letters offering one year of credit monitoring and identity theft insurance.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 161 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 45 days

Sep 1, 2020

Begins

Feb 9, 2021

Discovered

Mar 26, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_32c4a8df8072027d2021-03-26Verified
Maine State AGbd_69600edc9e3f42362021-03-26Candidate

Name: FirstBank
norm: firstbank
Domain: firstbankonline.com

Name: FirstBank
norm: firstbank
Domain: firstbankonline.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 9, 2021
Breach occurred: Sep 1, 2020 – Nov 9, 2020
Undetected for: 161 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 26, 2021
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Blocked the unauthorized access
Experts were retained to investigate the incident
Notification letters are being sent via U.S. Mail
Offering one (1) year of free credit monitoring and $1 million in identity theft insurance through Experian
Changes made: Performed a comprehensive review of its security program
Dedicating significant resources to enhance security within its network
Enhance it security posture to guard against the constantly evolving threat landscape
Taking steps to enhance our security measures and to train our employees
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(45 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Indiana State AGMar 26 · first

Maine State AGMar 26 · first

New Hampshire State AGMar 26 · first · this page

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/firstbank-20210326.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 26, 2021
Raw hash: 2b4c3631fbfcd0430c3826c3dca384755f0a702e350ba9948303f02b3d760ecc

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFirstBank

Victim entityFirstBank

Incidentdiscovered Feb 9, 2021

Stated responseBlocked the unauthorized access

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov