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Western Ecosystems Technology Inc

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 1, 2024

Filed

Sep 16, 2024

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Western Ecosystems Technology Inc →

Western Ecosystems Technology, Inc. experienced a data security incident in August 2024 where Oklahoma state tax forms containing personal identifiable information (PII) were inadvertently attached to an email sent to other Company shareholders. The attachment was not sent to any parties outside of the Company. The incident involved identity information such as names, addresses, and potentially Social Security numbers from state tax forms, but did not include bank account or direct deposit information. The company is offering two years of complimentary Experian IdentityWorks to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 46 days

Aug 1, 2024

Begins

Aug 1, 2024

Discovered

Sep 16, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

13 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_637899a3b65107b42024-09-16Candidate

Name: Western Ecosystems Technology Inc
norm: western ecosystems

Name: Western Ecosystems Technology Inc
norm: western ecosystems
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 1, 2024
Breach occurred: Aug 1, 2024 – Aug 31, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 16, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Unknown
Third party: via Plante Moran

During the incident: Actively addressing this incident internally and with the Service Provider to prevent a similar event from occurring again
Offering complimentary access to Experian IdentityWorks for two years
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(46 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

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Indiana State AGSep 16 · first

New Hampshire State AGSep 16 · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/plante-moran-western-ecosystems-technology-20240916.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 16, 2024
Raw hash: 6174ffe67c028fe514201b6693871438ac7d432364a75fe2cd98a811053581de

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWestern Ecosystems Technology Inc

Victim entityWestern Ecosystems Technology Inc

Incidentdiscovered Aug 1, 2024

Stated responseActively addressing this incident internally and with the Service Provider to prevent a similar event from occurring again

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov