Social EngineeringHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPIIPHIGovernment IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)MediumContained

The Affiliated Group

bd_a54d25ade4e6dc58 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 28, 2018

Filed

Sep 18, 2018

To disclose

25 weeks

Affected

21state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for The Affiliated Group →

The Affiliated Group (TAG) disclosed a November 2017 phishing incident resulting in unauthorized access to an employee email account. Confirmed on March 28, 2018, the breach exposed PHI and PII including SSNs, driver's licenses, and financial account numbers. TAG engaged forensic investigators, reset credentials, and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 147 days

discovery → filing · 25 weeks / 174 days

Nov 1, 2017

Begins

Mar 28, 2018

Discovered

Sep 18, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+14 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

California State AGbd_d7bfbdef63373e432018-09-19 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_d8c2bc646745bfb92018-09-19 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_e1d6c24523b7f8412018-09-27 · +9dVerified

Name: The Affiliated Group
norm: the affiliated

Name: The Affiliated Group
norm: the affiliated
Industry: HealthcarellmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 28, 2018
Breach occurred: Nov 1, 2017 – Mar 28, 2018
Undetected for: 147 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 14, 2018
Affected individuals: 21state-resident count only
Data types: PIIPHIGovernment IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberMedical information
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified certain regulators as required
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Disabled the account
Reset all account passwords
Worked with third-party forensic investigators
Undertook a programmatic and manual review of the contents of the account
Notified certain regulators
Provided free credit monitoring services through TransUnion
Changes made: Increased security awareness to reduce the likelihood of a similar event
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 25 weeks(174 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 AGSep 18 · first · this page

California State AG+1d

Massachusetts State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+9d

Pattern: first filing Sep 18 (MT), last Sep 27 (NH) — a 9-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/The-Affiliated-Group.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 18, 2018
Raw hash: 46af9355dc5d0a430345a14c256f67b51633a3808d257bbd9b225b251d57c71c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThe Affiliated Group

Victim entityThe Affiliated Group

Incidentdiscovered Mar 28, 2018

Stated responseDisabled the account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov