MalwareProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesRansomwareStolen CredentialsData EncryptedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Tom Wood Inc.

bd_4cb9cb4d05330cef · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 19, 2020

Filed

Feb 5, 2021

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected

7state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Tom Wood Inc. →2 incidents on file

Tom Wood Group notified Montana residents of a ransomware incident occurring between Oct 5-19, 2020. Unauthorized access via valid credentials led to system encryption. The company engaged Kroll for one year of identity monitoring and implemented MFA and security training. Data types included PII and government IDs.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 14 days

discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 109 days

Oct 5, 2020

Begins

Oct 19, 2020

Discovered

Feb 5, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_30e51e661b8094a52021-02-05Candidate
Indiana State AGbd_6019be280629767f2021-02-05Verified

Name: Tom Wood Inc.
norm: tom wood

Name: Tom Wood Inc.
norm: tom wood
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 19, 2020
Breach occurred: Oct 5, 2020 – Oct 19, 2020
Undetected for: 14 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 1, 2021
Affected individuals: 7state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Engaged a cybersecurity firm
Engaged Kroll to provide identity monitoring
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for one year
Changes made: Implemented additional safeguards and technical security measures, such as multi-factor authentication
Engaged a third-party consultant to provide security training to our employees
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 weeks(109 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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Maine State AGFeb 5 · first

Indiana State AGFeb 5 · first

Montana State AGFeb 5 · 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/wood-notif.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 5, 2021
Raw hash: 7c6e3bafb3dc92e2c86095cfa0a9ea3fe62c9e9bb86aaf6c5c21773f5b82fbd3

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTom Wood Inc.

Victim entityTom Wood Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 19, 2020

Stated responseEngaged a cybersecurity firm

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov