Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingEmployee Data InvolvedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Land Title Guaranty

bd_5597adcd884c63cc · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 27, 2017

Filed

Feb 7, 2017

To disclose

11 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Land Title Guaranty →2 incidents on file

Land Title Guarantee Company notified Montana employees of a phishing scam in March-May 2016 where attackers impersonated the President to steal W-2 data (names, SSNs, addresses). Discovered Jan 2017. FBI contacted. Affected individuals offered 2 years of Experian identity protection.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 332 days

discovery → filing · 11 days

Mar 1, 2016

Begins

Jan 27, 2017

Discovered

Feb 7, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_ca1ea8af0bba34092017-02-07Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_393a87e886626a8f2017-02-13 · +6dVerified

Name: Land Title Guarantee Company
norm: land title guarantee

Name: Land Title Guaranty
norm: land title guaranty
Domain: landtitleweb.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 27, 2017
Breach occurred: Mar 1, 2016 – May 31, 2016
Undetected for: 332 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 8, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Contacted the FBI
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Contacted the FBI concerning these incidents
Offering you two years of identity protection at no cost to you
Conducted an investigation which included working closely with the Company’s third-party payroll provider
Changes made: Comprehensive review of our policies and procedures for safeguarding employees’ personal information
Training for employees with access to that data
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 days(11 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 AGFeb 7 · first

Montana State AGFeb 7 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Feb 7 (NH), last Feb 13 (MA) — a 6-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/Land-Title.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 7, 2017
Raw hash: e96bba3ff7e5a43b064c9e456b1c12940b2d908967bf2730d6f55f810fb6ade0

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLand Title Guarantee Company

Victim entityLand Title Guaranty

Incidentdiscovered Jan 27, 2017

Stated responseContacted the FBI concerning these incidents

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov