HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

E.A. Renfroe & Company, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 27, 2021

Filed

Feb 22, 2021

To disclose

26 days

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for E.A. Renfroe & Company, Inc. →

E.A. Renfroe & Company, Inc. notified Montana residents that unauthorized parties accessed five employee email accounts between Sept 3-5, 2020. The company discovered the incident on Jan 27, 2021, finding personal information in one account. No evidence of misuse was found. The company secured accounts, engaged forensic investigators, and offered one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 146 days

discovery → filing · 26 days

Sep 3, 2020

Begins

Jan 27, 2021

Discovered

Feb 22, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

15 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2 affectedView incident

Name: E.A. Renfroe & Company, Inc.
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Name: E.A. Renfroe & Company, Inc.
norm: ea renfroe
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 27, 2021
Breach occurred: Sep 3, 2020 – Sep 5, 2020
Undetected for: 146 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Secured the accounts
Conducted an extensive forensic investigation and manual document review
Engaged and worked very closely with external cybersecurity professionals
Changes made: Offering a complimentary one-year membership of Experian IdentityWorksSM Credit 1B
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 days(26 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/OCP/a-notif-56.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 22, 2021
Raw hash: c9b1728f381440ae534fea7511e83c3fcd166684971c5a0e31680829dbefd332

Reporting entityE.A. Renfroe & Company, Inc.

Victim entityE.A. Renfroe & Company, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 27, 2021

Stated responseSecured the accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov