Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryPIIIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

Apex Home Loans Inc

bd_5f76bafb3887e0b2 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 30, 2021

Filed

Feb 9, 2022

To disclose

28 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Apex Home Loans Inc →

Apex Home Loans notified affected individuals of unauthorized access to employee email accounts between May 11 and July 30, 2021. The breach was discovered on July 30, 2021. Customer PII, including names and addresses, was potentially accessed. The company reset passwords, engaged in investigation, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 80 days

discovery → filing · 28 weeks / 194 days

May 11, 2021

Begins

Jul 30, 2021

Discovered

Feb 9, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+18 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

Maine State AGbd_04769c9277340d4d2022-02-09Candidate

Name: Apex Home Loans Inc
norm: apex home loans

Name: Apex Home Loans Inc
norm: apex home loans
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 30, 2021
Breach occurred: May 11, 2021 – Jul 30, 2021
Undetected for: 80 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 9, 2022
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Launched an investigation
Resetting employees’ email account passwords
Providing you with 12 months of complimentary access to credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Experian
Changes made: Enhance the security of our systems
Reviewing our existing policies and procedures
Implementing employee training protocols
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 28 weeks(194 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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Maine State AGFeb 9 · first

Montana State AGFeb 9 · first · 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/OCP/Consumer-Notification-35.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 9, 2022
Raw hash: 0424eaeb0ede7c0dd9eb9abdc6dca60e6b4d6e9842ca3e4c6c00c31fbacf9c61

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityApex Home Loans Inc

Victim entityApex Home Loans Inc

Incidentdiscovered Jul 30, 2021

Stated responseLaunched an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov