Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Whatcom Land Title Company

bd_35872c91a012b3ed · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 4, 2017

Filed

Sep 16, 2017

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

433state residents only

Confidence

66%

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Whatcom Land Title Company (WLT) disclosed that on August 4, 2017, it became the target of a phishing scam, leading to unauthorized access to an account containing customer PII. Data types included names, SSNs, driver's license numbers, passports, and bank account numbers. WLT shut down the access point, notified affected parties, and offered one year of free identity theft protection.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 43 days

Aug 4, 2017

Discovered

Sep 16, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed433 affectedView incident

Name: Whatcom Land Title Company
norm: whatcom land title
Domain: whatcomtitle.com

Name: Whatcom Land Title Company
norm: whatcom land title
Domain: whatcomtitle.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 4, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 433state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Shutting down the access point
Notifying employees and several WLT business associates and clients of the potential access point
Reviewing the affected account
Updating client information retention policy
Offering a one year identity theft protection plan
Changes made: Updating client information retention policy
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(43 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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM9736.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 16, 2017
Raw hash: 33a7e9771548364f9c5e81e194f5aae2909162864f51488a7cd9077fca2d132a

Reporting entityWhatcom Land Title Company

Victim entityWhatcom Land Title Company

Incidentdiscovered Aug 4, 2017

Stated responseShutting down the access point

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com