Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesProfessional ServicesFinancePhishingBECTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)LowContained

Mortgage Connect LP

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Oct 1, 2021

Filed

Feb 4, 2022

To disclose

18 weeks

Affected

21state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Mortgage Connect LP →

Mortgage Connect LP notified Montana residents of a Business Email Compromise incident. Unauthorized access to employee email accounts occurred between August 24 and October 14, 2021. The attacker may have accessed customer names. Mortgage Connect engaged forensic investigators, reset passwords, deployed MFA, and offered 2 years of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 38 days

discovery → filing · 18 weeks / 126 days

Aug 24, 2021

Begins

Oct 1, 2021

Discovered

Feb 4, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_0cdd54d27bdb96302022-02-04Verified
California State AGbd_44b803bf1454d8d22022-02-04Verified
Indiana State AGbd_671d2d8b0f25bf242022-02-04Verified

Name: Mortgage Connect LP
norm: mortgage connect

Name: Mortgage Connect LP
norm: mortgage connect
Industry: Financial ServicesllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 1, 2021
Breach occurred: Aug 24, 2021 – Oct 14, 2021
Undetected for: 38 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 4, 2022
Affected individuals: 21state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Resetting user passwords for business email accounts where unauthorized activity was detected
Accelerated deployment of enterprise-wide multi-factor authentication to business email accounts
Engaged a national forensic firm
Changes made: Enhance our security controls as appropriate to minimize the risk of any similar incident in the future
Offering complimentary identity theft protection and credit monitoring services for a period of two years
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 weeks(126 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGFeb 4 · first

California State AGFeb 4 · first

Indiana State AGFeb 4 · first

Montana State AGFeb 4 · 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-212.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 4, 2022
Raw hash: 757b951e7532693b3beddd27d2a476190044444ab8350f200838f01a7d93672f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMortgage Connect LP

Victim entityMortgage Connect LP

Incidentdiscovered Oct 1, 2021

Stated responseResetting user passwords for business email accounts where unauthorized activity was detected

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov