Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingBECTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Solomon Law Firm, PLLC

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 3, 2023

Filed

Nov 17, 2023

To disclose

15 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Solomon Law Firm, PLLC →

Solomon Law Firm, PLLC notified Montana residents of a Business Email Compromise (BEC) incident. A threat actor accessed an employee email account via phishing from June 12 to July 21, 2023. Personal information was temporarily accessible but no evidence of misuse was found. The firm reset passwords, engaged forensic investigators, and offered 24 months of identity theft protection.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 52 days

discovery → filing · 15 weeks / 106 days

Jun 12, 2023

Begins

Aug 3, 2023

Discovered

Nov 17, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2 affectedView incident

Name: Solomon Law Firm, PLLC
norm: solomon law firm

Name: Solomon Law Firm, PLLC
norm: solomon law firm
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 3, 2023
Breach occurred: Jun 12, 2023 – Jul 21, 2023
Undetected for: 52 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 15, 2023
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Initiated a password reset for the impacted email account
Launched a forensic investigation to determine the nature and scope of the compromise
Taking steps to enhance our threat monitoring capabilities and harden our systems
Providing cybersecurity awareness training to all employees
Offering identity theft protection services through IDX
Changes made: Enhance threat monitoring capabilities
Harden systems
Cybersecurity awareness training to all employees
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 weeks(106 days from discovery to filing)
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/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-859.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 17, 2023
Raw hash: 868fc784baacbab34e4a4163efc6adcfe657a8eb9afccdc60610dc2c1db786d3

Reporting entitySolomon Law Firm, PLLC

Victim entitySolomon Law Firm, PLLC

Incidentdiscovered Aug 3, 2023

Stated responseInitiated a password reset for the impacted email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov