Social EngineeringTransportation & LogisticsTransportationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Tidewater Transit Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 1, 2017

Filed

Apr 13, 2017

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Tidewater Transit Company →

Tidewater Transit Co., Inc. notified employees in Montana of a security incident in late March 2017 where employees were targeted by tax-related identity theft, likely via phishing. The incident involved unauthorized use of personal information (SSN, DOB, driver's license) to file fraudulent tax returns. The company engaged Kroll for one year of identity monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 43 days

Mar 1, 2017

Discovered

Apr 13, 2017

Filed

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

Name: Tidewater Transit Company
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Name: Tidewater Transit Company
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Industry: Transportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: Mar 1, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 17, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Contacted the IRS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Working with IT professionals to improve system security and protocols
Removed certain sensitive files from system
Taking additional security precautions
Contacted the IRS
Arranged for Kroll to provide one year of identity monitoring services
Changes made: Improving system security and protocols
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(43 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/Tidewater-Transit-Company.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 13, 2017
Raw hash: 279169dce4a04965a13a47dda5345e665352f312e2774e3968e157a84cd94d90

Reporting entityTidewater Transit Company

Victim entityTidewater Transit Company

Incidentdiscovered Mar 1, 2017

Stated responseWorking with IT professionals to improve system security and protocols

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov