Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsMulti-Stage ChainCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 15, 2021

Filed

Sep 2, 2021

To disclose

33 weeks

Affected

30state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation →8 incidents on file

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation notified affected individuals of a phishing campaign that compromised corporate email accounts between April 2020 and January 2021. The incident exposed PII including SSNs, DOBs, and financial account data. The company engaged outside security firms and offered five years of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 289 days

discovery → filing · 33 weeks / 230 days

Apr 1, 2020

Begins

Jan 15, 2021

Discovered

Sep 2, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+24 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_4a7b8a41f8213bab2021-09-07 · +5dVerified

Name: Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation
norm: fairway independent mortgage
Domain: fairwayindependentmc.com

Name: Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation
norm: fairway independent mortgage
Domain: fairwayindependentmc.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 15, 2021
Breach occurred: Apr 1, 2020 – Jan 15, 2021
Undetected for: 289 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 15, 2021
Affected individuals: 30state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Engaged two outside security firms to assist with the source and scope of the incident
Offering a complimentary five year membership of Experian’s® IdentityWorksSM
Changes made: Offering a complimentary five year membership of Experian’s® IdentityWorksSM
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 33 weeks(230 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 2 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Sep 2 (MT), last Sep 7 (NH) — a 5-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/OCP/notificationLetter-101.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 2, 2021
Raw hash: 34c19406627fa4b9f812c48d9dab507b2c00d9015c001e5f3426119066dba709

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFairway Independent Mortgage Corporation

Victim entityFairway Independent Mortgage Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Jan 15, 2021

Stated responseEngaged two outside security firms to assist with the source and scope of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov