HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsMulti-Stage ChainCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIMediumActive

National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 14, 2017

Filed

Jan 25, 2018

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians →

NREMT notified Montana DOJ of a breach where unauthorized individuals used stolen NDHHS employee credentials to access the NREMT certification platform starting Nov 17, 2017. The incident compromised names, addresses, and SSNs of EMT candidates. NREMT reset credentials, engaged forensic investigators, notified the FBI, and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 27 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 42 days

Nov 17, 2017

Begins

Dec 14, 2017

Discovered

Jan 25, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

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

Name: National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians
norm: national registry of emergency medical technicians

Name: National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians
norm: national registry of emergency medical technicians
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Dec 14, 2017
Breach occurred: Nov 17, 2017
Undetected for: 27 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 22, 2018
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: provided notice of this event to the FBIproviding notice to your state officials and consumer reporting agencies as required
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Immediately changed the account credentials
Launched an internal investigation
Retaining the services of a third party forensic investigation firm
Terminated the unauthorized access
Working with NDHHS to validate all EMT candidate certifications as legitimate
Providing notice to the FBI
Providing notice to your state officials and consumer reporting agencies
Providing access to free credit monitoring and identity theft recovery services
Changes made: Working with our third-party forensic investigation team to ensure the security of our systems and to prevent something like this from happening again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(42 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/National-Registy-of-Emergency-Medical-Technicians.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 25, 2018
Raw hash: 9fc80e291c8e496df0033220de32a10ca43e9ce8c69753dfbf2bea132b9920c9

Reporting entityNational Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians

Victim entityNational Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians

Incidentdiscovered Dec 14, 2017

Stated responseImmediately changed the account credentials

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov