Social EngineeringManufacturingManufacturingPhishingTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

MAXIM CRANE WORKS, L.P.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 2, 2016

Filed

Mar 11, 2016

To disclose

9 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for MAXIM CRANE WORKS, L.P. →3 incidents on file

Maxim Crane Works, L.P. notified Montana residents that on March 2, 2016, an employee fell for a fraudulent email (phishing) and attached tax forms containing PII (names, addresses, income, SSNs) to the attacker. The incident was discovered immediately. The company reported the incident to the FBI and IRS, and offered 24 months of identity protection services to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 days

Mar 2, 2016

Begins

Mar 2, 2016

Discovered

Mar 11, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

9 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: MAXIM CRANE WORKS, L.P.
norm: maxim crane works

Name: MAXIM CRANE WORKS, L.P.
norm: maxim crane works
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Mar 2, 2016
Breach occurred: Mar 2, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 11, 2016
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Instituted an investigation
Reported the incident to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Reported the incident to the three credit bureaus
Arranged to have AllClear ID protect your identity for 24 months at no cost
Changes made: Email requests for tax forms will not be honored without first confirming that the request is legitimate
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 days(9 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/Maxim-Crane-Works.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 11, 2016
Raw hash: 39f648cf000ae86a4e4320f3771f108f48c849bde52dda6d06609f1db6c89944

Reporting entityMAXIM CRANE WORKS, L.P.

Victim entityMAXIM CRANE WORKS, L.P.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 2, 2016

Stated responseInstituted an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov