HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)EmploymentLowContained

Woodruff Sawyer & Co.

bd_05d436bb4d52abd6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 8, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Woodruff Sawyer & Co. →6 incidents on file

Woodruff Sawyer & Co. disclosed unauthorized access to employee email accounts between March 2 and April 30, 2020. The incident involved potential exposure of personal information for clients and employees. The company engaged forensic investigators, reset passwords, and is offering credit monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

Mar 2, 2020

Begins

Dec 8, 2020

Filed

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

Oregon State AGbd_3becb4dbc41e61352020-11-12 · +26dVerified by operator
Washington State AGbd_d237dca2559a135f2020-11-10 · +28dVerified
Montana State AGbd_a4ee49c5e2e7c8d22020-11-09 · +29dCandidate

Name: Woodruff Sawyer & Co.
norm: woodruff sawyer
Domain: woodruffsawyer.com

Name: Woodruff Sawyer & Co.
norm: woodruff sawyer
Domain: woodruffsawyer.com
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Mar 2, 2020 – Apr 30, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 1, 2020
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Employment
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notifying state and federal regulators, as required
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Immediately took steps to secure the email accounts
Launched an investigation which included working with a third-party forensic investigator
Reset the email account passwords
Confirmed the security of our employee email accounts and related systems
Notifying state and federal regulators, as required
Offering complimentary access to one year of credit and identity monitoring, fraud consultation and identity theft restoration services through Kroll
Changes made: Review our existing policies and procedures
Implement additional safeguards
Provide additional training to our employees on data privacy and security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Montana State AGNov 9 · first

Washington State AG+1d

Oregon State AG+3d

California State AG+29d · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 9 (MT), last Dec 8 (CA) — a 29-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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-196912
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 8, 2020
Raw hash: 58f8a47f2da33bd1532f22a5a10c3a6ec7d57c4e174d767d7ca553c57ae128e1

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWoodruff Sawyer & Co.

Victim entityWoodruff Sawyer & Co.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImmediately took steps to secure the email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov