Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Goldleaf Partners Services, Inc.

bd_a5a1706c40cad23f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 31, 2017

Filed

Jan 26, 2018

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected

26state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Goldleaf Partners Services, Inc. →

Goldleaf Partners, a third-party administrator for retirement plans, notified affected individuals of a phishing campaign that compromised an employee's email credentials on October 31, 2017. The incident potentially exposed PII and government IDs (SSN) of plan participants. Goldleaf engaged forensic investigators and offered one year of free identity monitoring via Kroll.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 12 weeks / 87 days

Oct 31, 2017

Discovered

Jan 26, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+4 wks slower

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_7099e1e62d3f98fa2018-01-26Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_cb3efb891e7762072018-01-26Candidate

Name: Goldleaf Partners Services, Inc.
norm: goldleaf partners

Name: Goldleaf Partners Services, Inc.
norm: goldleaf partners
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 31, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 26state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Provided notice to certain regulators and consumer reporting agencies
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the employee’s email accounts
Launched an in-depth investigation
Worked with third-party forensic investigators
Conducted a programmatic and manual data review
Provided notice to regulators and consumer reporting agencies
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost for one year
Changes made: Secured the employee’s email accounts
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(87 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGJan 26 · first

New Hampshire State AGJan 26 · first

Montana State AGJan 26 · first · this page

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/Goldleaf.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 26, 2018
Raw hash: 6d13e687254027e2605f7989957becb1c69a8d1b4af868abba9116e2efd13fd9

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityGoldleaf Partners Services, Inc.

Victim entityGoldleaf Partners Services, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 31, 2017

Stated responseSecured the employee’s email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov