HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

Woodruff Sawyer & Co.

bd_a4ee49c5e2e7c8d2 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 2, 2020

Filed

Nov 9, 2020

To disclose

36 weeks

Affected

23state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Woodruff Sawyer & Co. →6 incidents on file

Woodruff Sawyer & Co. notified Montana residents of unauthorized access to an employee email account between March 2-3, 2020. The incident involved the use of stolen credentials and resulted in potential exposure of personal information belonging to clients. The company engaged forensic investigators, reset passwords, and offered one year of credit monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 36 weeks / 252 days

Mar 2, 2020

Begins

Mar 2, 2020

Discovered

Nov 9, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+18 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

Washington State AGbd_d237dca2559a135f2020-11-10 · +1dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_3becb4dbc41e61352020-11-12 · +3dVerified by operator
California State AGbd_05d436bb4d52abd62020-12-08 · +29dVerified

Name: Woodruff Sawyer & Co.
norm: woodruff sawyer
Domain: woodruffsawyer.com

Name: Woodruff Sawyer & Co.
norm: woodruff sawyer
Domain: woodruffsawyer.com
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 2, 2020
Breach occurred: Mar 2, 2020 – Mar 3, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 1, 2020
Affected individuals: 23state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notifying state and federal regulators, as required
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Immediately reset the email account password
Launched an investigation which included working with a third-party forensic investigator
Confirmed the security of our employee email accounts and related systems
Offering you complimentary access to one year of credit and identity monitoring, fraud consultation and identity theft restoration services through Kroll
Changes made: Reviewing existing policies and procedures
Implementing additional safeguards
Providing additional training to employees on data privacy and security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 36 weeks(252 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Montana State AGNov 9 · first · this page

Washington State AG+1d

Oregon State AG+3d

California State AG+29d

Pattern: first filing Nov 9 (MT), last Dec 8 (CA) — a 29-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.

Source URL: https://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/woodrufSamp.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 9, 2020
Raw hash: cae4ba795064419ce9e3e3874bc7dc54a3cf76a5812a1e8d715be5a971c89208

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWoodruff Sawyer & Co.

Victim entityWoodruff Sawyer & Co.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 2, 2020

Stated responseImmediately reset the email account password

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov