MalwareTechnologyInformationPhishingRansomwareStolen CredentialsMulti-Stage ChainRansom DemandedData EncryptedData ExfiltratedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

TAM International, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 29, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for TAM International, Inc. →

TAM International, Inc. notified Montana AG of a ransomware attack originating from a phishing email in March 2020. Criminals encrypted servers and claimed to exfiltrate executive data including names and SSNs. The incident was resolved by January 2021 using backups. No specific count of affected individuals was provided.

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Incident timeline

Mar 1, 2020

Begins

Jan 29, 2021

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: TAM International, Inc.
norm: tam international

Name: TAM International, Inc.
norm: tam international
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Mar 1, 2020 – Oct 24, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 29, 2021
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Retained cybersecurity forensic experts to investigate the incident
Reset passwords to network accounts
Implemented additional security controls to prevent further unauthorized access
Notified law enforcement
Changes made: Relied on backups to investigate and resume operations
Implemented additional security controls
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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/tamSamp.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 29, 2021
Raw hash: a3d1737c379516f772e57752498249239babae64dc99c843043d6bf7e00cd240

Reporting entityTAM International, Inc.

Victim entityTAM International, Inc.

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseRetained cybersecurity forensic experts to investigate the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov