HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)LowResolved

Mortgage Connect LP

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Oct 1, 2021

Filed

Feb 4, 2022

To disclose

18 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Mortgage Connect LP →

Mortgage Connect LP experienced unauthorized access to employee business email accounts between August 24, 2021, and October 14, 2021. The incident was discovered in early October 2021. An unauthorized party accessed Microsoft Outlook accounts, potentially obtaining limited personal information (names) of customers. The company engaged a forensic firm, reset passwords, and deployed multi-factor authentication. Affected individuals were offered two years of complimentary identity theft protection and credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 38 days

discovery → filing · 18 weeks / 126 days

Aug 24, 2021

Begins

Oct 1, 2021

Discovered

Feb 4, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_0cdd54d27bdb96302022-02-04Verified
Montana State AGbd_39ab124f7cf513022022-02-04Candidate
Indiana State AGbd_671d2d8b0f25bf242022-02-04Verified

Name: Mortgage Connect LP
norm: mortgage connect

Name: Mortgage Connect LP
norm: mortgage connect
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 1, 2021
Breach occurred: Aug 24, 2021 – Oct 14, 2021
Undetected for: 38 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 4, 2022
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Took steps to prevent any further unauthorized activity
Began an investigation
Engaged a national forensic firm
Resetting user passwords for business email accounts where unauthorized activity was detected
Changes made: Accelerated deployment of enterprise-wide multi-factor authentication to business email accounts
Enhance our security controls as appropriate to minimize the risk of any similar incident in the future
Offered complimentary identity theft protection and credit monitoring services for a period of two years
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 weeks(126 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGFeb 4 · first

Montana State AGFeb 4 · first

Indiana State AGFeb 4 · first

California State AGFeb 4 · 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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-550689
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 4, 2022
Raw hash: d5ad27ab5665b92f3b87d208608e73d58ed4ced5f12dca5c263602130400fad4

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMortgage Connect LP

Victim entityMortgage Connect LP

Incidentdiscovered Oct 1, 2021

Stated responseTook steps to prevent any further unauthorized activity

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov