Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

The Federal Savings Bank

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 20, 2016

Filed

Dec 16, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

4state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for The Federal Savings Bank →5 incidents on file

The Federal Savings Bank notified Montana residents that an employee email account was hacked and used to send phishing emails. While no personal info was accessed from the email, the account stored customer PII including names, SSNs, DOBs, driver's licenses, and financial account numbers. The bank engaged forensic experts, notified law enforcement, enhanced email security, provided employee training, and offered one year of free credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window not drawn

Dec 16, 2016

Filed

No interval is drawn: the discovery date on record falls after this filing's date.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4 affectedView incident

Name: The Federal Savings Bank
norm: the federal savings bank

Name: The Federal Savings Bank
norm: the federal savings bank
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 20, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 20, 2016
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Alerted federal law enforcement concerning this incident
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Isolated the e-mail account
Stopped the phishing e-mails
Locked out the hacker
Conducted a thorough investigation of the incident with the assistance of an outside computer forensic expert
Alerted federal law enforcement concerning this incident
Offering one year of credit monitoring at no cost to you
Changes made: Conducted a thorough review of our e-mail system security
Taken steps to enhance that security to prevent a recurrence
Provided additional training to employees to enhance their ability to identify potential hacking activity and to respond promptly to it
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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/The-Federal-Savings-Bank.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 16, 2016
Raw hash: f003ccf60870d09215a9de4bae99bc549c8cac5787e2d3b40bf2e1374ca3e801

Reporting entityThe Federal Savings Bank

Victim entityThe Federal Savings Bank

Incidentdiscovered Dec 20, 2016

Stated responseIsolated the e-mail account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov