Social EngineeringPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

E. A. Renfroe & Company, Inc.

bd_94b8ebbfe89deb70 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 3, 2020

Filed

Jan 8, 2021

To disclose

18 weeks

Affected

8state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

64%

E. A. Renfroe & Company, Inc. notified Montana residents that unauthorized parties accessed employee email accounts between Sept 3-5, 2020, via phishing. The breach exposed personal information of individuals who had provided data to the company. The company secured accounts, engaged forensic investigators, and offered one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 18 weeks / 127 days

Sep 3, 2020

Begins

Sep 3, 2020

Discovered

Jan 8, 2021

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_6f3a3747032858152021-01-19 · +11dVerified

Name: E. A. Renfroe & Company, Inc.
norm: e a renfroe
Domain: frame-store.com

Name: E. A. Renfroe & Company, Inc.
norm: e a renfroe
Domain: frame-store.com

Discovered: Sep 3, 2020
Breach occurred: Sep 3, 2020 – Sep 5, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 27, 2021
Affected individuals: 8state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the accounts
Conducted an extensive forensic investigation and manual document review
Engaged and worked very closely with external cybersecurity professionals
Offering a complimentary one-year membership of Experian IdentityWorksSM Credit 1B
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 weeks(127 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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Montana State AGJan 8 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+11d

Pattern: first filing Jan 8 (MT), last Jan 19 (NH) — a 11-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/a-notif-57.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 8, 2021
Raw hash: 8a3c526bc35b1422c6068355818273014d2af1aba5a25751b9f8b4c133f59720

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityE. A. Renfroe & Company, Inc.

Victim entityE. A. Renfroe & Company, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Sep 3, 2020

Stated responseSecured the accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov