Social EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingTargetedPIIPHIIdentity (basic)Health (basic)LowContained

PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE, INCORPORATED

bd_11d842868883803a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 8, 2020

Filed

Nov 6, 2020

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE, INCORPORATED →3 incidents on file

People Incorporated notified Montana and NC residents of a phishing incident where employee email accounts were compromised between April 28 and May 4, 2020. Discovery occurred on September 8, 2020. No evidence of patient data theft was found, but precautionary notice was issued.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 133 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 59 days

Apr 28, 2020

Begins

Sep 8, 2020

Discovered

Nov 6, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_27921e684e22f8c62020-11-06Verified

Name: PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE, INCORPORATED
norm: people encouraging people
Domain: peponline.org

Name: PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE, INCORPORATED
norm: people encouraging people
Domain: peponline.org
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Sep 8, 2020
Breach occurred: Apr 28, 2020 – May 4, 2020
Undetected for: 133 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIPHIIdentity (basic)Health (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Disabled the impacted email accounts
Required mandatory password resets
Commenced a thorough investigation
Worked very closely with external cybersecurity professionals
Conducted an extensive and time-consuming forensic investigation
Conducted a comprehensive manual document review
Changes made: Implemented additional technical safeguards on our email system
Implemented additional training and education for our employees to increase awareness of the risks of malicious emails
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(59 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRNov 6 · first

Montana State AGNov 6 · first · this page

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/peopincSamp.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 6, 2020
Raw hash: a9a8161e7905eccf285430a7d13325f68061cbb0a2f3123c1314c1a9e2c4db24

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE, INCORPORATED

Victim entityPEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE, INCORPORATED

Incidentdiscovered Sep 8, 2020

Stated responseDisabled the impacted email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov