DisclosureLens
HackingHospitalityHospitalityStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Hotel Contessa

bd_74f2b2451766657d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 26, 2020

Filed

Mar 13, 2020

To disclose

16 days

Affected

4state residents only

Confidence

65%

Hotel Contessa, operated by BGGMC LLC, notified Montana residents of a breach involving its third-party reservation system. Unauthorized access occurred Feb 18-26, 2020, via compromised user credentials. Data exposed included names, addresses, payment card numbers, and expiration dates. No CVV was accessed. The incident was reported to law enforcement.

Incident timeline

undetected · 8 days
discovery → filing · 16 days

Feb 18, 2020

Begins

Feb 26, 2020

Discovered

Mar 13, 2020

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4 affectedView incident

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.