MalwareTransportation & LogisticsTransportationRansomwareData ExfiltratedData EncryptedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

United Wheels Inc.

bd_5a31a22dd9308bc5 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jun 30, 2021

Filed

Nov 5, 2021

To disclose

18 weeks

Affected

16state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for United Wheels Inc. →

United Wheels Inc. notified Montana residents of a security incident discovered June 30, 2021. An unauthorized actor gained access between June 29-30, 2021, encrypted files, and exfiltrated data containing names and other personal information. United Wheels shut down systems, reset passwords, notified law enforcement, and engaged forensic specialists. Affected individuals were offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 18 weeks / 128 days

Jun 29, 2021

Begins

Jun 30, 2021

Discovered

Nov 5, 2021

Filed

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_2c124f5702dbea482021-11-05Candidate
Indiana State AGbd_9942e1327d045e992021-11-05Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_1539bb6ca6d982c72021-11-09 · +4dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_89f406343277e92c2021-11-12 · +7dVerified

Name: United Wheels Inc.
norm: united wheels

Name: United Wheels Inc.
norm: united wheels
Industry: Transportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: Jun 30, 2021
Breach occurred: Jun 29, 2021 – Jun 30, 2021
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 5, 2021
Affected individuals: 16state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: notified law enforcement

During the incident: Shut down impacted systems
Reset passwords
Notified law enforcement
Brought in third-party specialists to investigate and remediate the matter
Changes made: Took action to further enhance our security measures already in place to protect our network systems and data
Offering you access to 24 months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through IDX at no cost to you
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 weeks(128 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Maine State AGNov 5 · first

Indiana State AGNov 5 · first

Montana State AGNov 5 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+4d

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Nov 5 (ME), last Nov 12 (MA) — a 7-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/Consumer-Notification-Letter-60.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 5, 2021
Raw hash: 3805c30d5afbed8b598d49c897a28bd0b8dd0e8eeeae35fa171e7cfa69b66cbb

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityUnited Wheels Inc.

Victim entityUnited Wheels Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jun 30, 2021

Stated responseShut down impacted systems

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov