Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Amerman, Ginder & Co.

bd_65b537a77c2a09de · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 29, 2019

Filed

Oct 30, 2019

To disclose

13 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Amerman, Ginder & Co. →2 incidents on file

Amerman, Ginder & Co. notified Montana residents of unauthorized access to an employee's email account between July 8-23, 2019, discovered July 29, 2019. The incident involved phishing leading to credential compromise. Personal information was accessed. The firm engaged a computer security firm, secured the account, and offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 21 days

discovery → filing · 13 weeks / 93 days

Jul 8, 2019

Begins

Jul 29, 2019

Discovered

Oct 30, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

Massachusetts State AGbd_6371cb6bcbfe71f32019-10-30Verified

Name: Amerman, Ginder & Co.
norm: amerman ginder

Name: Amerman, Ginder & Co.
norm: amerman ginder
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 29, 2019
Breach occurred: Jul 8, 2019 – Jul 23, 2019
Undetected for: 21 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the employee’s email account
Launched an investigation to determine the nature and scope of the incident with the assistance of a computer security firm
Offering you a complimentary one-year membership in Experian’s® IdentityWorksSM Credit 3B
Changes made: Implemented additional safeguards and technical security measures to further protect personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 weeks(93 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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Massachusetts State AGOct 30 · first

Montana State AGOct 30 · 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-29.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 30, 2019
Raw hash: 91ff0bb4c3204c502b074199841a5893015e2682f4d523f1a4bb573daa0163ba

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAmerman, Ginder & Co.

Victim entityAmerman, Ginder & Co.

Incidentdiscovered Jul 29, 2019

Stated responseSecured the employee’s email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov