Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Employee Benefit Management Services, LLC

bd_83306677bf7650c3 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Apr 1, 2022

Filed

Jun 6, 2023

To disclose

14 months

Affected

22state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Employee Benefit Management Services, LLC →6 incidents on file

Benefit Management, LLC notified Montana residents of a data breach involving unauthorized access to email accounts from March 14 to April 2, 2022. The incident was discovered on April 1, 2022, following suspicious activity. Personal information, including names, was accessed. The company engaged forensic specialists, notified law enforcement and regulators, and offered credit monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 18 days

discovery → filing · 14 months / 431 days

Mar 14, 2022

Begins

Apr 1, 2022

Discovered

Jun 6, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+43 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed22 affectedView incident

Name: Employee Benefit Management Services, LLC
norm: employee benefit management

Name: Employee Benefit Management Services, LLC
norm: employee benefit management
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Apr 1, 2022
Breach occurred: Mar 14, 2022 – Apr 2, 2022
Undetected for: 18 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 6, 2023
Affected individuals: 22state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified state and industry regulatorsNotified law enforcement
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Launched an investigation with the help of computer forensic specialists
Undertook a comprehensive review of all data contained within the impacted email accounts
Notified state and industry regulators
Notified law enforcement
Offering complimentary access to credit monitoring services through IDX
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 months(431 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-335.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 6, 2023
Raw hash: dd241a01831d117e4eaef30dce1494dae361cf27769f8d4da4989c2f0a27b535

Reporting entityEmployee Benefit Management Services, LLC

Victim entityEmployee Benefit Management Services, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Apr 1, 2022

Stated responseLaunched an investigation with the help of computer forensic specialists

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov