Social EngineeringHealthcareProfessional ServicesHealthcarePhishingBECTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)MinorMediumContained

Mercy Grace Private Practice

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 1, 2020

Filed

Aug 30, 2021

To disclose

39 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

65%

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Mercy Grace Private Practice notified Montana residents of a December 2020 business email compromise. Unauthorized access to two employee email accounts exposed names, SSNs, driver's licenses, financial account info, and limited health information. The firm engaged forensic investigators, implemented MFA, and provided 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 39 weeks / 272 days

Dec 1, 2020

Begins

Dec 1, 2020

Discovered

Aug 30, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+26 wks slower

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

Name: Mercy Grace Private Practice
norm: mercy grace private practice

Name: Mercy Grace Private Practice
norm: mercy grace private practice
Industry: HealthcarellmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 1, 2020
Breach occurred: Dec 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)Minor
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Engaged a third-party professional cybersecurity forensics team to conduct a thorough investigation into our entire email tenant
Secured the services of Cyberscout to provide Single Bureau Credit Monitoring services at no cost to you
Providing cyber security training for our staff
Changes made: Implementing Multi Factor Authentication
Continuing to enhance security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 39 weeks(272 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/notificationLetter-91.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 30, 2021
Raw hash: 98a1e30b7b432453eaf56d3352fb07bf49267a419f7d8a79234691e88142e2e4

Reporting entityMercy Grace Private Practice

Victim entityMercy Grace Private Practice

Incidentdiscovered Dec 1, 2020

Stated responseEngaged a third-party professional cybersecurity forensics team to conduct a thorough investigation into our entire email tenant

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov