Social EngineeringPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

THE STOW COMPANY

bd_1c63b23f66417359 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Oct 3, 2019

Filed

Jan 29, 2020

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for THE STOW COMPANY →

The Stow Company notified affected individuals of unauthorized access to employee email accounts between August 25 and October 3, 2019. The incident was discovered on October 3, 2019, following suspicious activity. Personal information was potentially exposed. The company reset passwords, engaged forensic investigators, and provided one year of identity monitoring via Kroll.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 39 days

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 118 days

Aug 25, 2019

Begins

Oct 3, 2019

Discovered

Jan 29, 2020

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_78e8f82232125ace2020-01-29Verified
Indiana State AGbd_f13ed799ce3544ac2020-01-29Verified

Name: THE STOW COMPANY
norm: the stow

Name: THE STOW COMPANY
norm: the stow

Discovered: Oct 3, 2019
Breach occurred: Aug 25, 2019 – Oct 3, 2019
Undetected for: 39 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: Launched an investigation to determine the full scope and cause of the email activity
Engaged third-party forensic investigators
Undertook a lengthy review of the email accounts
Reset passwords for the impacted Stow email accounts
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring services
Changes made: Reviewing policies and procedures relating to data security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(118 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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Massachusetts State AGJan 29 · first

Indiana State AGJan 29 · first

Montana State AGJan 29 · 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/Breach-NotificationDetails-108.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 29, 2020
Raw hash: 01ed9568d328b86fe46c8acb62a0a2261b8216e0f214712d9e85c52378b0af8f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTHE STOW COMPANY

Victim entityTHE STOW COMPANY

Incidentdiscovered Oct 3, 2019

Stated responseLaunched an investigation to determine the full scope and cause of the email activity

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov