Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPIICredentialsLowContained

AB Staffing Solutions, LLC

bd_1087f3b0db0a5b35 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

May 1, 2020

Filed

Dec 1, 2020

To disclose

31 weeks

Affected

32state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for AB Staffing Solutions, LLC →

AB Staffing Solutions, LLC notified affected individuals of unauthorized access to employee email accounts in May-June 2020. The incident involved phishing leading to credential compromise and email collection. Data types included PII and credentials. The company reset passwords, engaged forensic investigators, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 31 weeks / 214 days

May 1, 2020

Begins

May 1, 2020

Discovered

Dec 1, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+12 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_0a656a3ae6afafa02020-12-01Verified
Maine State AGbd_33660bbe6275b46e2020-12-01Verified by operator
Indiana State AGbd_4d3d46d80d48fc172020-12-01Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_fabb3029ba6b15382020-12-07 · +6dVerified

Name: AB Staffing Solutions, LLC
norm: ab staffing

Name: AB Staffing Solutions, LLC
norm: ab staffing
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: May 1, 2020
Breach occurred: May 1, 2020 – Jun 30, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 13, 2020
Affected individuals: 32state-resident count only
Data types: PIICredentials
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: notifying state regulators, as required
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Reset the relevant account passwords
Took steps to determine what personal data was at risk
Confirmed the security of our employee email accounts and related systems
Working with third-party forensic investigators
Offering you complimentary access to twelve (12) months of credit and identity monitoring, fraud consultation and identity theft restoration services through TransUnion
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.

Time to disclose: 31 weeks(214 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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Massachusetts State AGDec 1 · first

Maine State AGDec 1 · first

Indiana State AGDec 1 · first

Montana State AGDec 1 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Dec 1 (MA), last Dec 7 (NH) — a 6-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/abSamp.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 1, 2020
Raw hash: 3205cc62f50748f37139764d787e4920c8096098e39210ff30c69e38f3979117

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAB Staffing Solutions, LLC

Victim entityAB Staffing Solutions, LLC

Incidentdiscovered May 1, 2020

Stated responseReset the relevant account passwords

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov