MisuseProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedPIILowContained

Elam Consulting

bd_395c44944a159e32 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 1, 2019

Filed

Jun 29, 2020

To disclose

52 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Elam Consulting →

Elam Consulting, Inc. notified Montana residents that a former independent contractor downloaded documents from the company's network in July 2019. The documents contained personal information. The contractor returned the documents, but unauthorized access could not be ruled out. The company offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 52 weeks / 364 days

Jul 1, 2019

Discovered

Jun 29, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+33 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_365c646a9f31cc502020-06-29Verified

Name: Elam Consulting
norm: elam consulting

Name: Elam Consulting
norm: elam consulting
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 1, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 29, 2020
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: PII
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Commenced an investigation
Retained an independent forensics investigation company and legal experts
Engaged a third party vendor to conduct a detailed review of the documents
Offering credit monitoring and identity protection services for a period of twelve (12) months at no cost
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 52 weeks(364 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGJun 29 · first

Montana State AGJun 29 · 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/2020-06-29_Elam-Consulting-Consumer-ltr.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 29, 2020
Raw hash: af65f6efcbec79bc24e5518a8334e041e24cfe93ce0f3382c989f4138db27229

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityElam Consulting

Victim entityElam Consulting

Incidentdiscovered Jul 1, 2019

Stated responseCommenced an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov