Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Harley-Davidson Motor Company Holdings, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 27, 2018

Filed

Dec 6, 2018

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Harley-Davidson Motor Company Holdings, Inc. →

Harley-Davidson notified Montana residents that an unauthorized individual accessed an employee's email account on September 27, 2018, potentially exposing names and Social Security numbers. The company secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, and offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks services. Additional email security controls were implemented.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 70 days

Sep 27, 2018

Discovered

Dec 6, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+2 wks slower

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

Name: Harley-Davidson Motor Company Holdings, Inc.
norm: harley davidson motor

Name: Harley-Davidson Motor Company Holdings, Inc.
norm: harley davidson motor
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Sep 27, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 6, 2018
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the email account
Retained an outside computer forensic firm
Offered complimentary one-year membership in Experian’s IdentityWorksSM Credit 3B
Changes made: Implemented additional security controls over our email system
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(70 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/Harley-Davidson-Motor-company-Inc.-Harley-Davidson.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 6, 2018
Raw hash: d08ebac22dae19aaec9ccac34a8b6b873167095d27badd815cbb08f7eafeeac1

Reporting entityHarley-Davidson Motor Company Holdings, Inc.

Victim entityHarley-Davidson Motor Company Holdings, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Sep 27, 2018

Stated responseSecured the email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov