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HOUSTON NORTHWEST BAPTIST CHURCH

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 7, 2024

Filed

Jul 25, 2024

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

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Houston Northwest Baptist Church notified Montana residents of a business email compromise on July 5, 2024. An unauthorized individual accessed an employee mailbox containing PII (names, SSNs, driver's licenses). The incident was discovered on June 7, 2024. The church engaged forensic experts and is offering credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 48 days

Jun 7, 2024

Discovered

Jul 25, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: HOUSTON NORTHWEST BAPTIST CHURCH
norm: houston northwest baptist church

Name: HOUSTON NORTHWEST BAPTIST CHURCH
norm: houston northwest baptist church
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Jun 7, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 5, 2024
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
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 both Information Technology (IT) solution and forensic experts to launch an investigation
Offering CyberScan dark web monitoring and/or credit monitoring for a year
Offering identity theft protection services through IDX
Changes made: Enhancing administrative and technical security protocols including multi-factor authentication
Additional employee training
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(48 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/Consumer-notification-letter-1576.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 25, 2024
Raw hash: 49057f3ae10494f1573add5976421d0ba884b6e1354930e3f440df2ef23e2936

Reporting entityHOUSTON NORTHWEST BAPTIST CHURCH

Victim entityHOUSTON NORTHWEST BAPTIST CHURCH

Incidentdiscovered Jun 7, 2024

Stated responseEngaged both Information Technology (IT) solution and forensic experts to launch an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov