HackingFinancial ServicesTechnologyFinanceStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentHealth (basic)HighContained

TALX

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Severity

High

Discovered

Feb 1, 2017

Filed

May 15, 2017

To disclose

15 weeks

Affected

1,467state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for TALX →4 incidents on file

TALX Corporation, a subsidiary of Equifax, disclosed a cyberattack affecting payroll data for Allegis Group employees. Unauthorized parties accessed accounts between Jan 2016 and Mar 2017 by answering personal security questions to reset PINs. Data exposed included names, SSNs, DOBs, and financial info. 1,467 Washington residents were notified in May 2017. TALX engaged forensic investigators, enhanced security controls, and offered 2 years of identity protection.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 394 days

discovery → filing · 15 weeks / 103 days

Jan 4, 2016

Begins

Feb 1, 2017

Discovered

May 15, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+6 wks slower

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_799ea6f3d8bb08292017-05-11 · +4dCandidate
California State AGbd_3bad998c067995d72017-05-23 · +8dVerified

Name: TALX
norm: talx

Name: TALX
norm: talx
Industry: Financial ServicesllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Feb 1, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 4, 2016 – Mar 29, 2017
Undetected for: 394 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 11, 2017
Affected individuals: 1,467state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentHealth (basic)
Data elements: Date of birthFinancial account numberSocial Security numberName
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 400-499dexposure 400-499d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified federal law enforcement, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and state tax authorities
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Engaged a leading cybersecurity firm to assist with its analysis
Notified federal law enforcement, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and state tax authorities
Implemented additional security measures, including enhanced fraud monitoring
Removed the personal questions as an option to reset PINs from the online portal
Reset potentially affected employees’ PINs
Removed unverified contact information (email addresses and phone numbers) associated with employees’ accounts
Added valid contact information from Allegis, where available, for the purpose of utilizing one-time passcodes as part of multi-factor authentication
Notified by mail the 1467 Washington residents who may have been affected
Offered two (2) years of AllClearID identity protection service at no cost
Changes made: Implemented additional security measures, including enhanced fraud monitoring
Removed the personal questions as an option to reset PINs from the online portal
Added valid contact information from Allegis, where available, for the purpose of utilizing one-time passcodes as part of multi-factor authentication
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 weeks(103 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGMay 11 · first

Washington State AG+4d · this page

California State AG+12d

Pattern: first filing May 11 (MT), last May 23 (CA) — a 12-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.

Source URL: https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM9703.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 15, 2017
Raw hash: ccd551bacfc12dd561877852cd67012136685a344cef406867bb28b4ebab4dc1

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTALX

Victim entityTALX

Incidentdiscovered Feb 1, 2017

Stated responseEngaged a leading cybersecurity firm to assist with its analysis

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com