MalwareFinancial ServicesFinanceRansomwareData ExfiltratedData EncryptedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Guardian Community Trust, Inc.

bd_4480b55626e68dc3 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 21, 2021

Filed

Aug 18, 2021

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Guardian Community Trust, Inc. →

Guardian Community Trust, Inc. notified Montana residents of a ransomware incident discovered on June 21, 2021. Systems were encrypted, and unauthorized actors viewed or took personal information including names and Social Security numbers. Guardian engaged forensic specialists, secured its environment, and offered five years of credit monitoring. No financial accounts were accessed.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 58 days

Jun 21, 2021

Discovered

Aug 18, 2021

Filed

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This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_3f49e532a5bd90092021-08-18Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_4d61ae11156e34fd2021-08-18Verified
Indiana State AGbd_570232288e4d0afc2021-08-18Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_1f7633b0eb4352bd2021-08-23 · +5dVerified

Name: Guardian Community Trust, Inc.
norm: guardian community

Name: Guardian Community Trust, Inc.
norm: guardian community
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jun 21, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 18, 2021
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Disconnected the infected systems from its network
Launched an investigation into the incident
Working with third-party forensic specialists
Undertook a thorough and time-intensive internal review of the data
Offering each affected person access to five (5) years of credit monitoring and identity protection services through Experian, Inc., at no cost
Changes made: Taken steps to secure its environment
Reviewing existing policies and procedures
Implementing additional safeguards to further secure the information in our systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(58 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Maine State AGAug 18 · first

Massachusetts State AGAug 18 · first

Indiana State AGAug 18 · first

Montana State AGAug 18 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Aug 18 (ME), last Aug 23 (NH) — a 5-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/notificationLetter-58.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 18, 2021
Raw hash: 3b336bf655c8a8aa29e9a39683bb7af11de3f7d58a344137bfb74ecf5f20df00

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityGuardian Community Trust, Inc.

Victim entityGuardian Community Trust, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jun 21, 2021

Stated responseDisconnected the infected systems from its network

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov