MisuseFinancial ServicesTechnologyFinancePrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Malaga Bank

bd_2269a656668175f4 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 30, 2022

Filed

Jan 9, 2023

To disclose

19 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Meriplex Communications, Ltd., an IT service provider for Malaga Bank, disclosed that a former employee unauthorizedly downloaded customer names and Social Security numbers. Meriplex discovered the suspicious activity on August 30, 2022, terminated the employee, and engaged forensic specialists. Affected individuals were offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

J jump to incidentP pin to compareR raw source

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 19 weeks / 132 days

Aug 30, 2022

Discovered

Jan 9, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+10 wks slower

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_5fa1bdc6e88a29a82023-01-09Verified
Indiana State AGbd_88c04acc52a54ee32023-01-09Verified
California State AGbd_a31a3278aca71c722023-01-09Verified
Montana State AGbd_fbcefec859f5c6eb2023-02-10 · +32dVerified

Name: Meriplex Communications, Ltd.
norm: meriplex communications

Name: Malaga Bank
norm: malaga bank
Industry: Financial ServicesllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Aug 30, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified state and federal law enforcement
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Terminating the employee
Notifying state and federal law enforcement
Launching an investigation with third-party forensic specialists
Changes made: Implemented additional controls such as password rotation
Implemented data loss prevention
Implemented USB restrictions
Review of all system accesses
Offering 24 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Equifax
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 19 weeks(132 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗

Massachusetts State AGJan 9 · first

Indiana State AGJan 9 · first

California State AGJan 9 · first

Montana State AGJan 9 · first · this page

Montana State AG+32d

Pattern: first filing Jan 9 (MA), last Feb 10 (MT) — a 32-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/OCP/Consumer-Notification-Letter-793.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 9, 2023
Raw hash: a786f7a2c3811604acd1c1b48aa8366db4374528d2a39fecc6b5b44c3cda0531

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMeriplex Communications, Ltd.

Victim entityMalaga Bank

Incidentdiscovered Aug 30, 2022

Stated responseTerminating the employee

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov