Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPHIHealth (basic)MediumContained

Katz Financial LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 10, 2023

Filed

Apr 25, 2023

To disclose

15 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

65%

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Katz Financial LLC notified Montana residents of a data security incident where unauthorized access to an email account occurred between Jan 4-10, 2023. Suspicious activity was identified on Jan 10, 2023. Affected data included names, state IDs, health insurance policy numbers, and medical information. Katz Financial changed passwords, enabled MFA, and provided 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 6 days

discovery → filing · 15 weeks / 105 days

Jan 4, 2023

Begins

Jan 10, 2023

Discovered

Apr 25, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+7 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2 affectedView incident

Name: Katz Financial LLC
norm: katz financial

Name: Katz Financial LLC
norm: katz financial
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 10, 2023
Breach occurred: Jan 4, 2023 – Jan 10, 2023
Undetected for: 6 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 25, 2023
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPHIHealth (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Implemented incident response protocols
Engaged a vendor to assist with reviewing the contents of the account
Changed the password to the impacted account
Enabled multi-factor authentication for remote access
Arranged for credit monitoring and identity theft protection services
Changes made: Enabled multi-factor authentication for remote access
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 weeks(105 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/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-214.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 25, 2023
Raw hash: e00cd17205eb35d7eb54abd50a2d796b46b3d2eccbef8bed4a0b227df43d0f2c

Reporting entityKatz Financial LLC

Victim entityKatz Financial LLC

Incidentdiscovered Jan 10, 2023

Stated responseImplemented incident response protocols

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov