Social EngineeringOtherPhishingTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

NATURE CONSERVANCY (THE)

bd_7c754597a55d7605 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 19, 2020

Filed

Mar 17, 2020

To disclose

27 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for NATURE CONSERVANCY (THE) →

The Nature Conservancy notified Montana residents on March 17, 2020, that an employee email account was compromised via phishing on February 19, 2020. Personal information of a limited number of individuals was accessed. The organization disabled access, reset passwords, retrained staff, and offered two years of credit protection services.

J jump to incidentP pin to compareR raw source

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 27 days

Feb 19, 2020

Begins

Feb 19, 2020

Discovered

Mar 17, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_3a631e23207e56222020-03-17Verified

Name: NATURE CONSERVANCY (THE)
norm: nature conservancy the
Domain: nature.org

Name: NATURE CONSERVANCY (THE)
norm: nature conservancy the
Domain: nature.org
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Feb 19, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 19, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 17, 2020
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Began an investigation
Disabled the unauthorized access
Blocked further sign-ins
Reset passwords
Retrained the employee about identifying and preventing phishing attacks
Reviewing our policies and procedures
Retained Experian to provide credit protection services
Changes made: Retrained the employee about identifying and preventing phishing attacks
Reviewing our policies and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 days(27 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗

Massachusetts State AGMar 17 · first

Montana State AGMar 17 · 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/Breach-NotificationDetails-138.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 17, 2020
Raw hash: 2b75f3aabb3d4810f1c63d9bff1c66e9da535e4992f89e2eefa569d13f3826a3

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNATURE CONSERVANCY (THE)

Victim entityNATURE CONSERVANCY (THE)

Incidentdiscovered Feb 19, 2020

Stated responseBegan an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov