MalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedPIIFinancial accountLowResolved

Ponti Veterinary Hospital

bd_5ba7ca3ac406fc80 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 18, 2020

Filed

Sep 17, 2020

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

9state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Ponti Veterinary Hospital →

Ponti Veterinary Hospital notified Montana regulators of a ransomware incident in August 2020. Systems were encrypted on Aug 14-17; VCA Animal Hospitals (which assumed operations on Aug 18) discovered the attack. No evidence of data acquisition was found, but systems were inaccessible. Additional security controls were implemented.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 4 days

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Aug 14, 2020

Begins

Aug 18, 2020

Discovered

Sep 17, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed9 affectedView incident

Name: Ponti Veterinary Hospital
norm: ponti veterinary hospital

Name: Ponti Veterinary Hospital
norm: ponti veterinary hospital
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Aug 18, 2020
Breach occurred: Aug 14, 2020 – Aug 17, 2020
Undetected for: 4 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 17, 2020
Affected individuals: 9state-resident count only
Data types: PIIFinancial account
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Conducted a full investigation of the incident with the support of cybersecurity and privacy experts
Put in place additional security controls to protect against future attacks
Actively monitoring to protect against further incidents
Changes made: Put in place additional security controls to protect against future attacks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(30 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/Ponti-Notif.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 17, 2020
Raw hash: 393ec0c838a76dd83b3d14f2c0a2a9116c399c72d17c9351d1046e6520bc0d03

Reporting entityPonti Veterinary Hospital

Victim entityPonti Veterinary Hospital

Incidentdiscovered Aug 18, 2020

Stated responseConducted a full investigation of the incident with the support of cybersecurity and privacy experts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov