DisclosureLens
HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Bank of the West

bd_898f7df75b36945a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 2, 2018

Filed

Aug 24, 2018

To disclose

25 weeks

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

67%
Full breach record for Bank of the West10 incidents on file

Bank of the West notified NH AG that a third-party service provider used compromised credentials to access employee email accounts, potentially exposing NH resident business names and SSNs. 4 residents affected. Incident discovered March 2, 2018. Notices mailed August 20, 2018. Forensics engaged, law enforcement notified, credit monitoring offered.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 25 weeks / 175 days

Mar 2, 2018

Discovered

Aug 24, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+16 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

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGAug 20 · first
California State AGAug 20 · first
New Hampshire State AG+4d · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 20 (MT), last Aug 27 (MA) — a 7-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.