Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Howard Law, LLC

bd_19a428ef1f16f53d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Oct 19, 2021

Filed

Nov 12, 2021

To disclose

24 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Howard Law, LLC →

Howard Law, LLC notified Montana residents that a phishing email compromised an employee email account accessed around March 5, 2021. The firm discovered the compromise on October 19, 2021, after an investigation. Personal information was contained in the account, though there is no evidence it was accessed. The firm secured the account, engaged outside cybersecurity professionals, and offered one year of credit monitoring via TransUnion.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 228 days

discovery → filing · 24 days

Mar 5, 2021

Begins

Oct 19, 2021

Discovered

Nov 12, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

15 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_037fe45933988a652021-11-12Candidate
Indiana State AGbd_d19449197755083d2021-11-12Verified

Name: Howard Law, LLC
norm: howard law

Name: Howard Law, LLC
norm: howard law
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 19, 2021
Breach occurred: Mar 5, 2021
Undetected for: 228 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (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: Secured the account
Launched an investigation in consultation with outside cybersecurity professionals
Offering you a one-year membership in myTrueIdentity provided by TransUnion Interactive
Changes made: Continually evaluate and modify our practices and internal controls to enhance the security and privacy of your personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 24 days(24 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Maine State AGNov 12 · first

Indiana State AGNov 12 · first

Montana State AGNov 12 · 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/OCP/Consumer-Notification-Letter-74.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 12, 2021
Raw hash: b203b012f59bd351adf4a2bc983d6d7c0e05f8ea6b6a6f7b39b794e15db1654b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHoward Law, LLC

Victim entityHoward Law, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Oct 19, 2021

Stated responseSecured the account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov