Social EngineeringHospitalityHospitalityPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)PIILowContained

Welk Resort Group, Inc.

bd_7c42c8e0b49b0701 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 2, 2018

Filed

Feb 22, 2019

To disclose

29 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Welk Resort Group, Inc. →3 incidents on file

Welk Resort Group, Inc. notified Montana residents of a data breach involving unauthorized access to an employee email account between July 24 and August 2, 2018. The incident, likely caused by phishing, exposed names and dates of birth. No evidence of misuse was found. The company offered one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 9 days

discovery → filing · 29 weeks / 204 days

Jul 24, 2018

Begins

Aug 2, 2018

Discovered

Feb 22, 2019

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_ad65323b3abe447f2019-02-22Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_c2ab2e64693eee6e2019-02-22Verified
California State AGbd_e90ad8f5a5b8cb352019-02-22Verified

Name: Welk Resort Group, Inc.
norm: welk resort

Name: Welk Resort Group, Inc.
norm: welk resort
Industry: Hospitalityllm

Discovered: Aug 2, 2018
Breach occurred: Jul 24, 2018 – Aug 2, 2018
Undetected for: 9 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 12, 2019
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)PII
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notifying state regulators as required by law
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Engaged third-party forensic investigators
Provided notice to affected individuals
Notifying state regulators as required by law
Arranged for one year of complimentary credit monitoring service through TransUnion Interactive
Changes made: Working to enhance existing security measures
Confirming the ongoing security of networks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 29 weeks(204 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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New Hampshire State AGFeb 22 · first

Massachusetts State AGFeb 22 · first

California State AGFeb 22 · first

Montana State AGFeb 22 · 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/CON-Welk-MT-Notice-of-Data-Event.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 22, 2019
Raw hash: 748c1ef09752827a798e93b143419f5a71e4d47a92103ac33051c75f049a9082

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWelk Resort Group, Inc.

Victim entityWelk Resort Group, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 2, 2018

Stated responseEngaged third-party forensic investigators

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov