Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

CRS Hardware Corporation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 25, 2023

Filed

Dec 19, 2023

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

17state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for CRS Hardware Corporation →

CRS Hardware Corporation notified Montana residents of a cybersecurity incident occurring Oct 24-25, 2023. An unauthorized actor accessed email accounts, potentially exposing names, addresses, and SSNs. No evidence of actual data misuse was found. The company engaged third-party specialists and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 55 days

Oct 24, 2023

Begins

Oct 25, 2023

Discovered

Dec 19, 2023

Filed

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed17 affectedView incident

Name: CRS Hardware Corporation
norm: crs hardware

Name: CRS Hardware Corporation
norm: crs hardware
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Oct 25, 2023
Breach occurred: Oct 24, 2023 – Oct 25, 2023
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 19, 2023
Affected individuals: 17state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
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: Launched an investigation, with the assistance of third-party cybersecurity specialists
Offering credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Experian for twelve (12) months
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(55 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/Consumer-notification-letter-956.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 19, 2023
Raw hash: 5bae0bc34fe15ae4ca4b637c564df468410ac4d8d23082e440fec00d956345db

Reporting entityCRS Hardware Corporation

Victim entityCRS Hardware Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Oct 25, 2023

Stated responseLaunched an investigation, with the assistance of third-party cybersecurity specialists

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov