Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

PayNorthwest, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 23, 2020

Filed

Apr 30, 2021

To disclose

12 months

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for PayNorthwest, LLC →

PayNorthwest, LLC notified Montana residents of a phishing incident on April 23, 2020, which compromised an employee's email account. The incident exposed full names and Social Security numbers of individuals for whom PayNorthwest provided accounting services. The company engaged external cybersecurity professionals and offered 12 months of complimentary identity theft protection services.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 12 months / 372 days

Apr 23, 2020

Begins

Apr 23, 2020

Discovered

Apr 30, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+34 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_b2227a2f30c9b3c32021-04-30Verified
Maine State AGbd_024ad15adf2e66952021-05-04 · +4dVerified

Name: PayNorthwest, LLC
norm: paynorthwest

Name: PayNorthwest, LLC
norm: paynorthwest
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Apr 23, 2020
Breach occurred: Apr 23, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Opened an investigation
Working closely with external cybersecurity professionals
Offering complimentary identity theft protection services through IDX
Providing 12 months of credit and CyberScan monitoring
Providing a $1,000,000 insurance reimbursement policy
Providing fully managed identity theft recovery services
Setting up a dedicated and confidential toll-free response line
Changes made: Continually evaluate and modify practices and internal controls to enhance the security and privacy of your information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 months(372 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 AGApr 30 · first

Montana State AGApr 30 · first · this page

Maine State AG+4d

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/a-notif-45.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 30, 2021
Raw hash: 9e712b3460600e3aba1c1adb4d39506d988e204bc50cd255576d25625045a404

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPayNorthwest, LLC

Victim entityPayNorthwest, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Apr 23, 2020

Stated responseOpened an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov