Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST

bd_6b30b536e436c2db · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jun 14, 2019

Filed

Nov 4, 2019

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST →2 incidents on file

Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust notified Montana residents of a phishing incident where an unauthorized actor accessed an employee email account between Dec 2018 and June 2019. The actor may have viewed names and other personal info. PREIT secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, and offered 1 year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 188 days

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 143 days

Dec 8, 2018

Begins

Jun 14, 2019

Discovered

Nov 4, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+11 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

Massachusetts State AGbd_2b91abdd6eccc1cc2019-11-04Verified

Name: PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST
norm: pennsylvania real estate investment

Name: PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST
norm: pennsylvania real estate investment
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jun 14, 2019
Breach occurred: Dec 8, 2018 – Jun 14, 2019
Undetected for: 188 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 4, 2019
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the account involved
Engaged a cybersecurity firm to assist with the investigation
Offered a complimentary one-year membership in Experian’s IdentityWorksSM Credit 3B
Changes made: Implemented additional safeguards and technical security measures
Providing employees with additional training regarding phishing emails
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(143 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 AGNov 4 · first

Montana State AGNov 4 · 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/General-Notice-19.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 4, 2019
Raw hash: 7294a8ba892f54e64883a03def3b7c865c9773878eecb333fccdaf2b0f6ae652

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST

Victim entityPENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST

Incidentdiscovered Jun 14, 2019

Stated responseSecured the account involved

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov