MalwareManufacturingManufacturingRansomwareData EncryptedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)MediumContained

Valent U.S.A. LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 24, 2021

Filed

Aug 11, 2022

To disclose

42 weeks

Affected

6state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Valent U.S.A. LLC →

Valent U.S.A. LLC notified Montana residents of a ransomware attack discovered on October 24, 2021, which encrypted network servers and potentially exposed personal information including SSNs, driver's licenses, financial account data, and medical information. Valent engaged forensic experts, reset credentials, and offered 24 months of identity theft protection.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 42 weeks / 291 days

Oct 24, 2021

Begins

Oct 24, 2021

Discovered

Aug 11, 2022

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_81e1f15e73fd0a932022-08-11Verified
California State AGbd_abd5697fe999088b2022-08-11Verified
Maine State AGbd_be0107fd492e52ef2022-08-11Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_c8ef98881cdc10202022-08-11Verified

Name: Valent U.S.A. LLC
norm: valent usa

Name: Valent U.S.A. LLC
norm: valent usa
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Oct 24, 2021
Breach occurred: Oct 24, 2021
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 11, 2022
Affected individuals: 6state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: contacted law enforcement and have been cooperating with them in their investigation of the attack

During the incident: Launched an internal investigation
Engaged outside expert consultants
Took our network and computers down
Contacted law enforcement and cooperated with them in their investigation
Restored our systems from back-up servers unaffected by the systems outage
Reset all network administrative credentials and passwords
Performing ongoing additional forensic scans on our systems
Changes made: Conducting regular testing, patching, training and other steps to further protect our networks
Offering 24 months of free fraud detection and identity theft protection
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 42 weeks(291 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 · 5 states

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Indiana State AGAug 11 · first

California State AGAug 11 · first

Maine State AGAug 11 · first

Massachusetts State AGAug 11 · first

Montana State AGAug 11 · 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-487.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 11, 2022
Raw hash: 21e43647d987a7e46606c90d1e583681f1f18971f53f84f2dfad4ad5a66c1246

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityValent U.S.A. LLC

Victim entityValent U.S.A. LLC

Incidentdiscovered Oct 24, 2021

Stated responseLaunched an internal investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov