Social EngineeringOtherPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

People for People

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 20, 2016

Filed

Mar 20, 2017

To disclose

22 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

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People for People notified Montana residents of a data security incident discovered on October 20, 2016, where an unauthorized individual accessed an employee's email account. The incident may have exposed names, addresses, dates of birth, Driver’s License numbers, and Social Security numbers. The company engaged forensic investigators, secured accounts, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 22 weeks / 151 days

Oct 20, 2016

Discovered

Mar 20, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+13 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_eda52ece9d66a5d22017-03-17 · +3dCandidate

Name: People for People
norm: people for people

Name: People for People
norm: people for people
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Oct 20, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 16, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the email account
Changed passwords for other employee accounts
Initiated an investigation
Engaged a digital forensics firm
Offering 12 months of free credit and identity monitoring services
Changes made: Enhancing the security of our systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 weeks(151 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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Washington State AGMar 17 · first

Montana State AG+3d · 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/People-for-People.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 20, 2017
Raw hash: d733082c5792260af8e29b8a130121b7bcc491e0ea2d9f7cc13fc0b0c801cb8d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPeople for People

Victim entityPeople for People

Incidentdiscovered Oct 20, 2016

Stated responseSecured the email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov