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Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 15, 2014

Filed

Jul 3, 2014

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

132state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services

Montana DPHHS supplements prior notice of a malware incident discovered May 15, 2014. A server was hacked, likely first accessed in July 2013. Approximately 132 New Hampshire residents (including 36 clients) are notified. Data potentially included names, SSNs, DOBs, bank accounts, and PHI. DPHHS shut down the server, engaged forensic investigators, and offers 1 year of credit monitoring.

Incident timeline

undetected · 318 days
discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 49 days

Jul 1, 2013

Begins

May 15, 2014

Discovered

Jul 3, 2014

Filed

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

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
New Hampshire State AGJun 23 · first
New Hampshire State AG+10d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jun 23 (NH), last Jul 7 (MT) — a 14-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.