Social EngineeringPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Pennsylvania Adult & Teen Challenge

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 29, 2020

Filed

Feb 9, 2021

To disclose

28 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Pennsylvania Adult & Teen Challenge →

Pennsylvania Adult and Teen Challenge notified individuals of an incident where unauthorized persons accessed employee email accounts between July 27-30, 2020. The breach was detected on July 29, 2020. Affected data included names and other personal information. PAATC engaged forensic investigators, reset passwords, and offered credit monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days

discovery → filing · 28 weeks / 195 days

Jul 27, 2020

Begins

Jul 29, 2020

Discovered

Feb 9, 2021

Filed

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

HHS OCRbd_9b0af19d81007f4b2021-02-09Verified

Name: Pennsylvania Adult & Teen Challenge
norm: pennsylvania adult teen challenge
Domain: paatc.org

Name: Pennsylvania Adult & Teen Challenge
norm: pennsylvania adult teen challenge
Domain: paatc.org

Discovered: Jul 29, 2020
Breach occurred: Jul 27, 2020 – Jul 30, 2020
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Reporting this incident to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and state regulators
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Immediately took steps to investigate this activity
Change all user account passwords
Disable the relevant account
Began working with forensic specialists to investigate the nature and scope of the incident
Undertook a detailed and diligent review of all data present in the accounts
Offering you access to credit monitoring and identity theft restoration service at no cost to you
Changes made: Implementing additional safeguards to further protect the security of information in our systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 28 weeks(195 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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HHS OCRFeb 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/pennaSamp.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 9, 2021
Raw hash: b743d786f9534bdd6718c84859550df8b735ac176092fcb7a94b35f8acb651d1

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPennsylvania Adult & Teen Challenge

Victim entityPennsylvania Adult & Teen Challenge

Incidentdiscovered Jul 29, 2020

Stated responseImmediately took steps to investigate this activity

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov