HackingOtherStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedPIILowContained

Samaritan

bd_7480bba20eedc857 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 2, 2022

Filed

Nov 17, 2022

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

7state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Samaritan →2 incidents on file

Samaritan's Purse notified Montana residents of a data breach affecting its travel vendor. Unauthorized access occurred on August 24, 2022. Personal information of travelers was accessed. Samaritan's Purse confirmed the breach on September 2, 2022. No evidence of data download was found. Identity theft protection services were offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 9 days

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 76 days

Aug 24, 2022

Begins

Sep 2, 2022

Discovered

Nov 17, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+3 wks slower

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_004cf811a1c981f32022-11-17Verified
Maine State AGbd_a16376b12e28f2202022-11-17Verified
Indiana State AGbd_fa85e66fbb9daefb2022-11-11 · +6dVerified

Name: Samaritan
norm: samaritan
Domain: samaritanspurse.org

Name: Samaritan
norm: samaritan
Domain: samaritanspurse.org
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Sep 2, 2022
Breach occurred: Aug 24, 2022
Undetected for: 9 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 7state-resident count only
Data types: PII
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: trusted_relationship

During the incident: Worked with the affected vendor to determine how this happened
Isolated and removed the unauthorized person’s access
Added enhanced access controls
Deleted all information no longer needed to arrange travel
Reviewed our internal procedures and added more safeguards, including enhanced secure messaging
Contracted with NortonLifeLock to provide two (2) years of complimentary LifeLock DefenderTM Preferred identity theft protection
Changes made: Added enhanced access controls
Deleted all information no longer needed to arrange travel
Will no longer retain any of our travel information for more than 30 days
Added more safeguards, including enhanced secure messaging
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 weeks(76 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Indiana State AGNov 11 · first

Massachusetts State AG+6d

Maine State AG+6d

Montana State AG+6d · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 11 (IN), last Nov 17 (MT) — a 6-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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-719.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 17, 2022
Raw hash: 7b2aa9a419730e87293536f5278f1defab9e75abe0a5efb9bb668213274a9dba

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySamaritan

Victim entitySamaritan

Incidentdiscovered Sep 2, 2022

Stated responseWorked with the affected vendor to determine how this happened

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov