HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Apex Banking Company of Georgia

bd_0b38747c82eb6a0e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 12, 2024

Filed

Feb 13, 2024

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Apex Banking Company of Georgia →2 incidents on file

Apex Banking Company of Georgia notified Montana residents of a data breach occurring between Sept 29 and Oct 9, 2023. Unauthorized access to electronic files containing personal and financial information was discovered on Jan 12, 2024. The company engaged cybersecurity experts, contained the incident, and offered complimentary credit monitoring and fraud assistance to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 105 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 32 days

Sep 29, 2023

Begins

Jan 12, 2024

Discovered

Feb 13, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

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

Name: Apex Banking Company of Georgia
norm: apex banking company of georgia
Domain: apexga.bank

Name: Apex Banking Company of Georgia
norm: apex banking company of georgia
Domain: apexga.bank
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 12, 2024
Breach occurred: Sep 29, 2023 – Oct 9, 2023
Undetected for: 105 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 9, 2024
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Contained the incident
Engaged leading cybersecurity experts to identify what personal information, if any, was involved
Providing access to Single Bureau Credit Monitoring/Single Bureau Credit Report/Single Bureau Credit Score services at no charge
Providing proactive fraud assistance through Cyberscout through Identity Force
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(32 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/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-1099.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 13, 2024
Raw hash: 9b10ec84804c9f81809b0d5755575602b5b753623b831e2d474f198c42be5d07

Reporting entityApex Banking Company of Georgia

Victim entityApex Banking Company of Georgia

Incidentdiscovered Jan 12, 2024

Stated responseContained the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov