Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsMulti-Stage ChainCustomer Data InvolvedCredentialsPIILowContained

Sonabank

bd_4b23faf6b11f0a07 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 27, 2017

Filed

Oct 31, 2017

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Sonabank →

Sonabank notified affected individuals of a phishing attack that compromised employee email accounts. Unauthorized access occurred between June 4 and August 26, 2017. The bank hired forensic experts, reset passwords, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring. The incident involved employee credentials and potentially customer PII.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 53 days

discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 96 days

Jun 4, 2017

Begins

Jul 27, 2017

Discovered

Oct 31, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+5 wks slower

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_726d2616febbe51e2017-10-31Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_c72187ffa765b6202017-10-31Verified

Name: Sonabank
norm: sonabank

Name: Sonabank
norm: sonabank
Also named: Southern National Bancorp of Virginia, Inc.dba oflegal entity
Sonabankdba oftrade name
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 27, 2017
Breach occurred: Jun 4, 2017 – Aug 26, 2017
Undetected for: 53 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 27, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: CredentialsPII
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Hired third-party forensic experts to investigate the nature and scope of the incident
Ensured that all affected employees changed their passwords
Implementing additional measures to further safeguard our systems
Providing 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services with Experian
Changes made: Reviewing existing policies and procedures to protect the privacy and security of your personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 weeks(96 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGOct 31 · first

Massachusetts State AGOct 31 · first

Montana State AGOct 31 · 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Sonabank.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 31, 2017
Raw hash: ce634137d1abe01a004e28d1c97032d4027b2f9b573ee19c503fc9257ace0db0

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySonabank

Victim entitySonabank

Incidentdiscovered Jul 27, 2017

Stated responseHired third-party forensic experts to investigate the nature and scope of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov