HackingGovernmentGovernmentStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)PIILowContained

Town of Circle

bd_456d83a7d469594d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Apr 7, 2025

Filed

Apr 22, 2025

To disclose

15 days

Affected

78state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Town of Circle →

The Town of Circle notified individuals that an unauthorized third party accessed a single email account between January 24 and February 11, 2025. The incident may have exposed names and variable personal data. The Town secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, and offered one year of Experian credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 73 days

discovery → filing · 15 days

Jan 24, 2025

Begins

Apr 7, 2025

Discovered

Apr 22, 2025

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed78 affectedView incident

Name: Town of Circle
norm: town of circle
Domain: townofcircle.org

Name: Town of Circle
norm: town of circle
Domain: townofcircle.org
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Apr 7, 2025
Breach occurred: Jan 24, 2025 – Feb 11, 2025
Undetected for: 73 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 22, 2025
Affected individuals: 78state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)PII
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Began an internal investigation and secured the email account
Engaged a forensic security firm to investigate and confirm the security of our email system
Offering a complimentary one-year membership of Experian IdentityWorksSM Credit 3B
Changes made: Enhancing our technical security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 days(15 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/2025/05/Consumer-notification-letter-6.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 22, 2025
Raw hash: c3a50119c122f10820acb402c2fa9ad25183844ab151b404a863b796caa4e3b2

Reporting entityTown of Circle

Victim entityTown of Circle

Incidentdiscovered Apr 7, 2025

Stated responseBegan an internal investigation and secured the email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov