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

Bank of the West

bd_9f46f790366be395 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 2, 2018

Filed

Aug 20, 2018

To disclose

24 weeks

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Bank of the West10 incidents on file

Bank of the West notified Montana customers of a security incident involving a contracted service provider. Unauthorized parties used compromised credentials to access employee email accounts at the vendor, potentially exposing business names and Social Security numbers. The bank engaged forensic investigators, notified law enforcement, and offered one year of credit monitoring.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 24 weeks / 171 days

Mar 2, 2018

Discovered

Aug 20, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+15 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 ↗
California State AGAug 20 · first
Montana State AGAug 20 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 20 (CA), 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.