HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

Cassidy Consulting Group

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 27, 2020

Filed

Nov 25, 2020

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

65%

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Cassidy Consulting Group notified Montana residents of unauthorized access to an email account between June 30 and July 27, 2020. The breach exposed names and other personal information. The company engaged forensic investigators, reset passwords, notified law enforcement, and offered 12 months of identity protection services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 27 days

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 121 days

Jun 30, 2020

Begins

Jul 27, 2020

Discovered

Nov 25, 2020

Filed

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

Name: Cassidy Consulting Group
norm: cassidy consulting

Name: Cassidy Consulting Group
norm: cassidy consulting
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 27, 2020
Breach occurred: Jun 30, 2020 – Jul 27, 2020
Undetected for: 27 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 25, 2020
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: reporting this incident to necessary state regulators
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Commenced an investigation, working with third-party forensic investigators
Reset passwords
Notify law enforcement
Notify potentially impacted individuals
Reporting this incident to necessary state regulators
Changes made: Reviewed and enhanced existing policies and procedures
Deployment of multi-factor authentication on our email accounts
Providing you with access to 12 months of identity protection service through ID Experts
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(121 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/cassSamp.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 25, 2020
Raw hash: b65a3d45da2f23fa2e5bd89a69bd57cfc782e3d2f93dcb0a6e5ffb93a1a96bcc

Reporting entityCassidy Consulting Group

Victim entityCassidy Consulting Group

Incidentdiscovered Jul 27, 2020

Stated responseCommenced an investigation, working with third-party forensic investigators

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov