Social EngineeringGovernmentGovernmentPhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumActive

Town of Colchester

bd_249ac46a7daee366 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 8, 2021

Filed

Jan 19, 2022

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Town of Colchester →

Town of Colchester notified employees and volunteers of a digital intrusion discovered Dec 8, 2021, where fraudulent emails were sent from compromised accounts. Perpetrators may have accessed emails containing PII, SSNs, and payroll data. The Town provided 3 years of Experian credit monitoring and is working with law enforcement and IT vendors.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 42 days

Dec 8, 2021

Discovered

Jan 19, 2022

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_fcb09b3ab5bab6fc2022-01-19Verified

Name: Town of Colchester
norm: town of colchester

Name: Town of Colchester
norm: town of colchester
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Dec 8, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 19, 2022
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Working with law enforcement
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Providing a three-year membership of Experian IdentityWorksSM Credit 3B
Continuing to work with law enforcement
Working with outside IT vendors
Moved email to another email provider
Changes made: Taken additional precautions to safeguard personal information
Continually evaluate and modify practices to enhance security and privacy
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(42 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Maine State AGJan 19 · first

Montana State AGJan 19 · 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-188.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 19, 2022
Raw hash: a07d69af585532f9d387d8b0dddea60194b76e900709a84395fce352007fc6ca

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTown of Colchester

Victim entityTown of Colchester

Incidentdiscovered Dec 8, 2021

Stated responseProviding a three-year membership of Experian IdentityWorksSM Credit 3B

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov