MalwareEnergy & UtilitiesTechnologyUtilitiesRansomwareRansom DemandedData ExfiltratedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountCredentialsLowContained

DIRECT ENERGY, LP

bd_15fca67992f8604f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Nov 3, 2020

Filed

Dec 2, 2020

To disclose

29 days

Affected

84state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for DIRECT ENERGY, LP →2 incidents on file

Direct Energy LP notified Montana residents of a ransomware attack on a third-party data analytics vendor on November 3, 2020. Unauthorized parties accessed and extracted customer information. Direct Energy suspended the vendor, engaged in forensic investigation, and offered two years of Experian IdentityWorks to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 29 days

Nov 3, 2020

Begins

Nov 3, 2020

Discovered

Dec 2, 2020

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_195ec47bf66a82462020-12-02Verified
Illinois State AGbd_18247c0c8da5a2462021-01-01 · +30dVerified
Maine State AGbd_8962841e2e4a1fd12021-01-06 · +35dVerified
Maine State AGbd_f994b9ede3225a022021-01-08 · +37dVerified

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California State AGbd_bd7e340089a059a62021-01-21 · +50dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_d00d7ca04529ab442020-01-01 · +336dCandidate

Name: DIRECT ENERGY, LP
norm: direct energy

Name: DIRECT ENERGY, LP
norm: direct energy
Industry: Energy & UtilitiesllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Nov 3, 2020
Breach occurred: Nov 3, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 2, 2020
Affected individuals: 84state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountCredentials
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: notifying law enforcement
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Notifying law enforcement
Successfully locking out the unauthorized users from their system
Undertaking a full forensic investigation of the incident
Suspended all activity with this vendor
Notified Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover
Offering a complimentary two-year membership of Experian’s IdentityWorks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 29 days(29 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 5 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

New Hampshire State AG+336d

Montana State AG+336d · this page

Illinois State AG+366d

Maine State AG+371d

Maine State AG+373d

California State AG+386d

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Jan 21 (CA) — a 386-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/directSamp.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 2, 2020
Raw hash: 9e15d8326d771279b3b435b2bcfb47f94707b0c83cf108e72a53710ca8c31bab

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityDIRECT ENERGY, LP

Victim entityDIRECT ENERGY, LP

Incidentdiscovered Nov 3, 2020

Stated responseNotifying law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov