Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePretextingTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Conover Capital Management, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 16, 2016

Filed

Feb 3, 2017

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

9state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Conover Capital Management, LLC →

Conover Capital Management, LLC notified individuals of a November 16, 2016 incident where an attacker used pretexting to gain remote access to an employee's computer linked to a client database. Data potentially exposed included names, addresses, SSNs, and driver's license numbers. Investigation found no direct evidence of misuse, but credit monitoring was offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 79 days

Nov 16, 2016

Begins

Nov 16, 2016

Discovered

Feb 3, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+3 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

Washington State AGbd_1e434af9da8464702017-02-03Candidate

Name: Conover Capital Management, LLC
norm: conover capital management

Name: Conover Capital Management, LLC
norm: conover capital management
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 16, 2016
Breach occurred: Nov 16, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 3, 2017
Affected individuals: 9state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Reported the incident to law enforcement
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Launched an internal investigation
Reported the incident to law enforcement
Retained a leading incident response and digital forensics firm to assist in Conover’s investigation
Offering one year of free credit monitoring and identity protection services through Experian’s ProtectMyID Alert
Changes made: Evaluating ways to best strengthen our systems to guard against this type of similar future incident
Preventing similar unauthorized remote access to employees’ computers
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 weeks(79 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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Washington State AGFeb 3 · first

Montana State AGFeb 3 · 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/Conover.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 3, 2017
Raw hash: 278248c4678293b34f642d59b180cb7e12cbfd6b84d91075252bad570728a705

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityConover Capital Management, LLC

Victim entityConover Capital Management, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Nov 16, 2016

Stated responseLaunched an internal investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov