Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Trade Risk Guaranty

bd_7a694fb116685cf4 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 17, 2017

Filed

Feb 22, 2017

To disclose

5 days

Affected

75state residents only

Confidence

65%

Trade Risk Guaranty (TRG) notified Montana employees that a phishing scam resulted in the leak of W-2 forms containing names, addresses, earnings, and the last 4 digits of SSNs. Incident occurred and notices sent on Feb 17, 2017. No specific count of affected individuals provided.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 days

Feb 17, 2017

Begins

Feb 17, 2017

Discovered

Feb 22, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed75 affectedView incident

Name: Trade Risk Guaranty
norm: trade risk guaranty

Name: Trade Risk Guaranty
norm: trade risk guaranty
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 17, 2017
Breach occurred: Feb 17, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 17, 2017
Affected individuals: 75state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Reported this to the authorities
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Reported this to the authorities and Google
Actively researching what types of things we all might do
Seeking advice from outside fraud experts
Changes made: Asking everyone to be extremely cautious when there is a request for any type of sensitive information or files
Getting separate email confirmation (not by clicking “reply”)
Verbal verification
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 days(5 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/TRG.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 22, 2017
Raw hash: 866f108adac054c65033763699943f3a6bebc38e1bdc07e3c896aa4a1095caa8

Reporting entityTrade Risk Guaranty

Victim entityTrade Risk Guaranty

Incidentdiscovered Feb 17, 2017

Stated responseReported this to the authorities and Google

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov