Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

FIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP

bd_82906facf3da7e11 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

May 5, 2020

Filed

Sep 2, 2020

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for FIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP →

First Pacific Advisors, LP notified Montana and other states of a phishing incident where two employee email accounts were accessed between May 2-5, 2020. The incident involved personal information contained in those accounts. FPA secured accounts, reset passwords, engaged forensic experts, and offered 24 months of Experian credit monitoring. No evidence of misuse was found, but possibility could not be ruled out.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 3 days

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 120 days

May 2, 2020

Begins

May 5, 2020

Discovered

Sep 2, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_3fa3e5eb886e9ef52020-09-01 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_ad4ed5e5d2beadbe2020-08-20 · +13dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_fa0ce49da93534302020-08-19 · +14dCandidate

Name: FIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP
norm: first pacific advisors

Name: FIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP
norm: first pacific advisors
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 5, 2020
Breach occurred: May 2, 2020 – May 5, 2020
Undetected for: 3 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 2, 2020
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Contacted federal and state authorities
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the email accounts
Launched an investigation with the assistance of an independent expert computer forensics firm
Reset the passwords for the affected email accounts
Required all other employees not affected by the incident to reset their passwords
Increased the intensity of our phishing testing, including targeted training
Contacted federal and state authorities
Changes made: Implementing additional safeguards designed to protect our network and your personal information
Offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Experian
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(120 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 · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGAug 19 · first

Massachusetts State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+13d

Montana State AG+14d · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 19 (NH), last Sep 2 (MT) — a 14-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/Data-BreachNotification-2.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 2, 2020
Raw hash: 2d00cf5f0c099097fddd809cd5ea6554142232c3d75ee6ebf8313db79ae8b824

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP

Victim entityFIRST PACIFIC ADVISORS, LP

Incidentdiscovered May 5, 2020

Stated responseSecured the email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov