Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

BANKSOUTH MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 7, 2017

Filed

Apr 11, 2017

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for BANKSOUTH MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC →

BankSouth Mortgage notified customers that unauthorized access to two employee email accounts occurred on Feb 3, 2017, discovered Feb 7, 2017. Data potentially exposed included names, SSNs, driver's licenses, and credit card numbers. No evidence of misuse was found. The company engaged the FBI and OCC, enhanced security, and offered 12 months of Kroll credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 4 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 63 days

Feb 3, 2017

Begins

Feb 7, 2017

Discovered

Apr 11, 2017

Filed

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Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_c7653d890fd4b76f2017-04-13 · +2dVerified

Name: BANKSOUTH MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC
norm: banksouth mortgage

Name: BANKSOUTH MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC
norm: banksouth mortgage
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 7, 2017
Breach occurred: Feb 3, 2017
Undetected for: 4 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 17, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the Office of the Comptroller of the CurrencyNotified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Disabled access to the email accounts
Conducted an investigation to determine the scope of the problem
Notified the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Providing credit and identity monitoring services for 12 months at no cost to you through Kroll
Changes made: Enhancing the security of our system
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(63 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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Montana State AGApr 11 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+2d

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/BankSouth-Mortgage.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 11, 2017
Raw hash: ec647a04d4c85941091cf352ebf6145cc2bb2ccdf84d4f5b72b230fbaf89292e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBANKSOUTH MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC

Victim entityBANKSOUTH MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Feb 7, 2017

Stated responseDisabled access to the email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov