MalwareProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesRansomwareBackdoor / C2Supply Chain (3P Vendor)Data EncryptedPIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA)

bd_2978e6af74f47b60 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jun 27, 2016

Filed

Jul 27, 2016

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) →

SEMA notified Montana AG of a third-party vendor (Comnet) breach. Unauthorized access occurred April 23-24, 2016. Comnet systems were encrypted. Potential exposure of member PII and credit card data. SEMA terminated Comnet and offered 1 year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 65 days

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Apr 23, 2016

Begins

Jun 27, 2016

Discovered

Jul 27, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

13 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 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 (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_60ab2e1ec1d308652016-07-28 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_d0adc6750c212ad72016-07-26 · +1dVerified

Name: Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA)
norm: specialty equipment market association sema
Domain: sema.org

Name: Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA)
norm: specialty equipment market association sema
Domain: sema.org
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jun 27, 2016
Breach occurred: Apr 23, 2016 – Apr 24, 2016
Undetected for: 65 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 25, 2016
Affected individuals: 2state-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: ExternalFinancial
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
SEMA has hired Equifax to provide one year of credit monitoring service at no cost
SEMA has terminated its relationship with Comnet
Changes made: SEMA has terminated its relationship with Comnet, and Comnet no longer serves as a vendor for SEMA
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 · 3 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGJul 26 · first

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/Specialty-Equipment-Market-Assoc-SEMA.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 27, 2016
Raw hash: 4a3cdc7cb246a9579bd3e397e5859b900c9d45fd01364975871d556543d40805

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySpecialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA)

Victim entitySpecialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA)

Incidentdiscovered Jun 27, 2016

Stated responseComnet has referred this matter to appropriate law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov