HackingManufacturingManufacturingCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)MediumContained

CROWN EQUIPMENT CORPORATION

bd_0b9529421edd36d4 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 9, 2024

Filed

Aug 12, 2024

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for CROWN EQUIPMENT CORPORATION →

Crown Equipment Corporation notified Vermont consumers of a June 9, 2024 cyberattack where unauthorized third parties accessed IT systems containing employee and family member data, including names, SSNs, driver's licenses, financial accounts, and health info. Crown contained the threat, engaged forensic investigators, notified federal law enforcement, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday9 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 64 days

Jun 9, 2024

Discovered

Aug 12, 2024

Filed

This filing is one of 7 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_4cbb43b92396237b2024-08-12Verified
Maine State AGbd_865c226d1d559e292024-08-12Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_d0dea2c47036a2a42024-08-12Verified
California State AGbd_db5e9bdf22f2bc872024-08-12Verified

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Indiana State AGbd_4151be7f6a17ab542024-08-09 · +3dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_0c003741ace8f4c22024-08-01 · +11dVerified

Name: CROWN EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
norm: crown equipment

Name: CROWN EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
norm: crown equipment
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Jun 9, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 8, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: proactively notified federal law enforcement agenciesreceived support from federal law enforcement and their cybersecurity partners
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Deployed security measures to contain and mitigate this threat
Took systems offline so we could conduct a comprehensive investigation
Retained a leading cybersecurity incident response team
Proactively notified federal law enforcement agencies
Retained independent third-party IT security consultants to analyze the incident
Changes made: Enhance prevention and mitigation efforts
Provide free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(64 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >14 bday
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

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Illinois State AGAug 1 · first

Indiana State AG+8d

New Hampshire State AG+11d

Maine State AG+11d

Massachusetts State AG+11d

California State AG+11d

Vermont State AG+11d · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 1 (IL), last Aug 12 (VT) — a 11-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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2024-08-12-crown-equipment-corporation-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 12, 2024
Raw hash: e1dda6262a778ec9eed457964a9fc63e3d5422286b441c4aa5c211fa36385f5f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCROWN EQUIPMENT CORPORATION

Victim entityCROWN EQUIPMENT CORPORATION

Incidentdiscovered Jun 9, 2024

Stated responseDeployed security measures to contain and mitigate this threat

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov