MalwareProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesRansomwareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data EncryptedPIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE, INC.

bd_278fe9c4ff56e878 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jun 14, 2016

Filed

Jul 14, 2016

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE, INC. →

Project Management Institute (PMI) notified Montana residents of a breach involving its vendor, Comnet Marketing Group. An unauthorized user gained access to Comnet's systems on April 23-24, 2016, issuing commands to delete data, potentially including customer credit card info. PMI offered one year of Equifax credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 52 days

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Apr 23, 2016

Begins

Jun 14, 2016

Discovered

Jul 14, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

15 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of Comnet Marketing Group supply-chain incident (2016) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_575ecd83aa0e5e112016-07-14Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_55fb98f8838384452016-07-15 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_abfe226953e463df2016-07-13 · +1dVerified

Name: PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE, INC.
norm: project management institute

Name: PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE, INC.
norm: project management institute
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jun 14, 2016
Breach occurred: Apr 23, 2016 – Apr 24, 2016
Undetected for: 52 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 13, 2016
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Comnet has referred this matter to appropriate law enforcement
Third party: via Comnet Marketing Group, Inc.
Initial access: external_remote_services

During the incident: Comnet has referred this matter to appropriate law enforcement
We have hired Equifax to provide, at no cost to you, credit monitoring services
PMI has terminated its relationship with Comnet
Changes made: PMI has terminated its relationship with Comnet, and Comnet no longer serves as a vendor for PMI
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(30 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗

New Hampshire State AGJul 13 · first

California State AG+1d

Montana State AG+1d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+2d

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/Project-Management-Institute-PMI.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 14, 2016
Raw hash: 72567c0773cbfe78f2c93121be8cb57d099dcd26fe12d7e8c389ef839ce2764c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE, INC.

Victim entityPROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jun 14, 2016

Stated responseComnet has referred this matter to appropriate law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov