Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCredentialsHealth (basic)PHIMediumContained

HUD Federal Credit Union

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 6, 2019

Filed

Feb 24, 2020

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for HUD Federal Credit Union →3 incidents on file

HUD Federal Credit Union notified Montana residents of a phishing incident starting Dec 6, 2019, where unauthorized parties accessed employee email accounts. Personal data including SSNs, financial info, and health data may have been viewed. The incident was contained, forensic investigators were hired, and credit monitoring was offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 80 days

Dec 6, 2019

Begins

Dec 6, 2019

Discovered

Feb 24, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+3 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: HUD Federal Credit Union
norm: hud federal credit union

Name: HUD Federal Credit Union
norm: hud federal credit union
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 6, 2019
Breach occurred: Dec 6, 2019
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 21, 2020
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCredentialsHealth (basic)PHI
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the email accounts to prevent further access
Conducted an internal investigation
Hired a leading forensic security firm to investigate the incident and confirm the security of our computer systems and network
Changes made: Offering a complimentary one-year membership to Experian IdentityWorksSM Credit 3B
Reviewing technical controls
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 weeks(80 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/HUD-Federal-Credit-Union-Consumer-ltr.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 24, 2020
Raw hash: 13c2f262d0debb2f92ea929c4b140d372a3442b084bc8b770f38023167eeb9f2

Reporting entityHUD Federal Credit Union

Victim entityHUD Federal Credit Union

Incidentdiscovered Dec 6, 2019

Stated responseSecured the email accounts to prevent further access

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov