Social EngineeringOtherPhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)AuthenticationMediumContained

New Life Church

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 20, 2022

Filed

Jan 23, 2023

To disclose

31 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

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New Life Church notified Montana residents of a data breach where an unauthorized individual accessed an employee email mailbox via spoofed phishing emails. The incident, discovered June 20, 2022, exposed PII including SSNs, bank details, medical info, and credentials. The church engaged forensic experts, reset passwords, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 31 weeks / 217 days

Jun 20, 2022

Discovered

Jan 23, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+23 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: New Life Church
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Name: New Life Church
norm: new life church
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Jun 20, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 23, 2023
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)Authentication
Data elements: Social Security numberMedical information
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Filed notification with Montana Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Engaged an IT forensic expert to perform a forensic analysis of our email system
Reset the password on the affected mailbox
Reviewed our internal policies
Enhanced our security protocols to better protect personal identifiable information
Offering credit monitoring for 12 months
Offering identity theft protection services through IDX
Changes made: Enhanced our security protocols to better protect personal identifiable information from any further unauthorized access
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 31 weeks(217 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-801.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 23, 2023
Raw hash: 93fee54b4f58a6445aa4e910cebe9187b1dfee7c4c106ab0afb12d52e27301ac

Reporting entityNew Life Church

Victim entityNew Life Church

Incidentdiscovered Jun 20, 2022

Stated responseEngaged an IT forensic expert to perform a forensic analysis of our email system

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov