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Considine & Considine

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jun 8, 2022

Filed

Oct 24, 2022

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Considine & Considine →

Considine & Considine notified Montana residents of a security incident discovered on June 8, 2022. Unauthorized actors accessed employee email inboxes between Dec 17, 2021, and June 8, 2022. Customer names were potentially exposed. No evidence of misuse was found. The firm offered credit monitoring and is reviewing security safeguards.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 173 days

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 138 days

Dec 17, 2021

Begins

Jun 8, 2022

Discovered

Oct 24, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+2 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5 affectedView incident

Name: Considine & Considine
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Name: Considine & Considine
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Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jun 8, 2022
Breach occurred: Dec 17, 2021 – Jun 8, 2022
Undetected for: 173 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 24, 2022
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: notifying the relevant regulatory agencies of this event
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Ensuring the security of their email tenant
Investigating the nature and scope of the event
Reviewing the relevant email accounts
Notifying individuals whose data may be at-risk
Assessing and validating the security of our email
Reviewing our technical safeguards, policies, procedures, and employee training program
Notifying the relevant regulatory agencies of this event
Offering you [12/24] months of credit monitoring through Experian at no cost to you
Changes made: Reviewing our technical safeguards, policies, procedures, and employee training program to reduce the likelihood of similar events from happening in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(138 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/OCP/Consumer-Notification-Letter-639.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 24, 2022
Raw hash: b3ba0422ee3f653df410b53107f241d163704449f47e6fddac16cec6a38bd353

Reporting entityConsidine & Considine

Victim entityConsidine & Considine

Incidentdiscovered Jun 8, 2022

Stated responseEnsuring the security of their email tenant

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov