Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingBECRansom DemandedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

H. Beck, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 20, 2019

Filed

Dec 3, 2019

To disclose

13 days

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for H. Beck, Inc. →2 incidents on file

H. Beck, Inc. notified Montana residents of a data privacy incident discovered on November 20, 2019. An unknown source gained access to an email account via suspicious activity (likely phishing) and requested a fraudulent fund transfer, which was denied. The account was disabled, password reset, and security controls enhanced. Compromised data included names, SSNs, driver's licenses, and financial account details.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 13 days

Nov 20, 2019

Discovered

Dec 3, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2 affectedView incident

Name: H. Beck, Inc.
norm: h beck

Name: H. Beck, Inc.
norm: h beck
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 20, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 3, 2019
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Additional security controls were put in place on all [REDACTED] accounts during the week of the incident
The account was disabled
The password was changed
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 days(13 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/General-Notice-40.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 3, 2019
Raw hash: 2237c274453c4469f225441ac5f238acdb9808ea7fa10caf7fad071ab38041bb

Reporting entityH. Beck, Inc.

Victim entityH. Beck, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Nov 20, 2019

Stated responseAdditional security controls were put in place on all [REDACTED] accounts during the week of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov