HackingOtherPhishingStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumContained

BINA Farm Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 4, 2024

Filed

Oct 31, 2024

To disclose

34 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for BINA Farm Inc. →

BINA Farm Inc. notified consumers of a cyber incident where an unknown intruder gained unauthorized access to an employee's email account on Feb 28, 2024, potentially accessing cloud storage. Detected March 4, 2024, the breach exposed names, contact info, SSNs, driver's licenses, and medical information. BINA engaged forensic investigators, locked down systems, reset passwords, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday34 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 5 days

discovery → filing · 34 weeks / 241 days

Feb 28, 2024

Begins

Mar 4, 2024

Discovered

Oct 31, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+27 wks slower

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_2a46042dd64dd9e52024-10-31Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_5118f31efa910b0a2024-10-31Verified

Name: BINA Farm Inc.
norm: bina farm

Name: BINA Farm Inc.
norm: bina farm
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Mar 4, 2024
Breach occurred: Feb 28, 2024
Undetected for: 5 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 31, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Data elements: Medical information
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Locked down its systems and strengthening security controls
Engaged a leading forensics firm to determine the means of ingress and what information (if any) may have been accessed by the intruder
Resetting passwords for all personnel accounts with access to the potentially affected environment
Launching a thorough investigation of the unstructured data in the relevant email accounts
Changes made: Providing access to Single Bureau Credit Monitoring/Single Bureau Credit Report/Single Bureau Credit Score services at no charge for twenty-four (24) months
Providing proactive fraud assistance
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 34 weeks(241 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bday
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGOct 31 · first

New Hampshire State AGOct 31 · first

Vermont State AGOct 31 · 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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2024-10-31-bina-farm-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 31, 2024
Raw hash: 5e4dec9b0797887f1b53d9f0664dd94cef2c3ec9e4e05ddbeb8822e57d634951

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBINA Farm Inc.

Victim entityBINA Farm Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 4, 2024

Stated responseLocked down its systems and strengthening security controls

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov