MalwareProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesRansomwareRansom DemandedLowResolved

Taleff & Murphy, P.C.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jun 15, 2016

Filed

Aug 10, 2016

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Taleff & Murphy, P.C. →

Taleff & Murphy, P.C. notified the Montana Attorney General of a ransomware incident on June 15, 2016. The firm's data system was encrypted via a phishing email attachment. The firm engaged a technology company to restore files without paying the ransom. The firm asserts no data was accessed or acquired.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 56 days

Jun 15, 2016

Begins

Jun 15, 2016

Discovered

Aug 10, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

12 wks faster

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

Name: Taleff & Murphy, P.C.
norm: taleff murphy

Name: Taleff & Murphy, P.C.
norm: taleff murphy
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jun 15, 2016
Breach occurred: Jun 15, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: —
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Enlisted the aid of our internet technology company to scrub the files and restore them
Recovered access to all data
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(56 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/Taleff-Murphy.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 10, 2016
Raw hash: b996b72b04c2abb131c41933a1f55e54fed1bf9a43ed1ab32aa18d86c2b7e4a3

Reporting entityTaleff & Murphy, P.C.

Victim entityTaleff & Murphy, P.C.

Incidentdiscovered Jun 15, 2016

Stated responseEnlisted the aid of our internet technology company to scrub the files and restore them

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov