HackingManufacturingManufacturingStolen CredentialsCapture Stored DataData ExfiltratedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Friedrich Air Conditioning Co., Ltd.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 9, 2022

Filed

Aug 10, 2022

To disclose

26 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Friedrich Air Conditioning Co., Ltd. →2 incidents on file

Friedrich Air Conditioning, LLC notified Montana residents of a data breach where unauthorized third parties accessed IT files containing names and SSNs. Activity dated back to June 2021; incident discovered Feb 2022. Affected individuals offered 1 year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 253 days

discovery → filing · 26 weeks / 182 days

Jun 1, 2021

Begins

Feb 9, 2022

Discovered

Aug 10, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+15 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_d9e4d6855a0920f02022-08-12 · +2dCandidate

Name: Friedrich Air Conditioning Co., Ltd.
norm: friedrich air conditioning

Name: Friedrich Air Conditioning Co., Ltd.
norm: friedrich air conditioning
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Feb 9, 2022
Breach occurred: Jun 1, 2021 – Feb 9, 2022
Undetected for: 253 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 4, 2022
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Passwords were changed
The unauthorized access was blocked
Outside technical experts were also engaged to further investigate and evaluate the nature and scope of the incident
Undertook an extensive document review process of the impacted files
Offering you one (1) year(s) of free credit monitoring and identity theft insurance through Experian
Changes made: Taking steps to enhance our security measures to help reduce the risk of something like this happening in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 weeks(182 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 AGAug 10 · first · this page

Maine State AG+2d

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/Consumer-Notification-Letter-495.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 10, 2022
Raw hash: 095a109376239529d641bca3d2232579189db1baaef0fb64c3760a6e5571f281

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFriedrich Air Conditioning Co., Ltd.

Victim entityFriedrich Air Conditioning Co., Ltd.

Incidentdiscovered Feb 9, 2022

Stated responsePasswords were changed

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov