HackingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

VILLAGE PEOPLE, L.L.C.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 14, 2018

Filed

Sep 25, 2018

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for VILLAGE PEOPLE, L.L.C. →

Village People, LLC notified investors of unauthorized network access discovered on August 14, 2018. Personal information including SSNs and driver's licenses was potentially accessed. The company reset passwords, engaged forensic investigators, and offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks protection.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 42 days

Aug 14, 2018

Discovered

Sep 25, 2018

Filed

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_2c7f2f381c0eaf1a2018-10-31 · +36dCandidate

Name: VILLAGE PEOPLE, L.L.C.
norm: village people

Name: VILLAGE PEOPLE, L.L.C.
norm: village people

Discovered: Aug 14, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 26, 2018
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Montana Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Reset passwords
Blocked the intruder’s access to our systems
Notified law enforcement
Began an investigation
Rebuild affected systems
Validate data
Restore services
Conducted by a forensic investigation firm
Changes made: Enhance our existing security protocols
Re-educating our staff for awareness on these types of incidents
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(42 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Montana State AGSep 25 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+36d

Pattern: first filing Sep 25 (MT), last Oct 31 (MA) — a 36-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/Village-People.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 25, 2018
Raw hash: 76332d51b9c741d69a8564ada09ae5e41b84ffd349d62352541f9fabf7e41fb7

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityVILLAGE PEOPLE, L.L.C.

Victim entityVILLAGE PEOPLE, L.L.C.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 14, 2018

Stated responseReset passwords

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov