Social EngineeringGovernmentGovernmentPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Metropolitan Council

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 12, 2024

Filed

Dec 4, 2024

To disclose

34 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Metropolitan Council →

Metropolitan Council reported unauthorized access to employee email accounts between March 27 and May 27, 2024, following suspicious activity identified on April 12, 2024. The incident involved phishing leading to credential compromise. Potentially affected data included names, addresses, phone numbers, and SSNs. One New Hampshire resident was notified. Credit monitoring was offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 16 days

discovery → filing · 34 weeks / 236 days

Mar 27, 2024

Begins

Apr 12, 2024

Discovered

Dec 4, 2024

Filed

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_1ef46e82b66a511f2024-12-04Candidate
Indiana State AGbd_7e63071c711699772024-12-03 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_19dd3eaf23b9625c2024-12-06 · +2dVerified
Maine State AGbd_74e62c065020c6722024-12-06 · +2dVerified

Name: Metropolitan Council
norm: metropolitan council

Name: Metropolitan Council
norm: metropolitan council
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Apr 12, 2024
Breach occurred: Mar 27, 2024 – May 27, 2024
Undetected for: 16 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 13, 2024
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: reporting this event to appropriate regulatorsproviding written notice of this event to appropriate state privacy regulators
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Moved quickly to investigate and respond
Secure Metropolitan Council’s email tenant
Identify potentially affected individuals
Issue notification
Working to implement additional cybersecurity safeguards and training to its employees
Providing access to credit monitoring services for , through IDX
Providing potentially affected individuals with guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Providing individuals with information on how to place a fraud alert and security freeze on one’s credit file
Providing written notice of this event to appropriate state privacy regulators
Providing written notice of this event to the three major consumer reporting agencies, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion
Changes made: Implement additional cybersecurity safeguards and training to its employees
Reviewing our policies, procedures, and training protocol to reduce the risk of a similar events from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 34 weeks(236 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Indiana State AGDec 3 · first

Montana State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+1d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+3d

Maine State AG+3d

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/metropolitan-council-20241204.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 4, 2024
Raw hash: 8e38f802b3169ec790ab20b06fc6abc9da917360ef6e70c30bac5b617b6f9c5e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMetropolitan Council

Victim entityMetropolitan Council

Incidentdiscovered Apr 12, 2024

Stated responseMoved quickly to investigate and respond

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov