Social EngineeringPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Sand Companies, Inc.

bd_a6947f690def89f6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jun 19, 2020

Filed

Aug 11, 2020

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

20state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Sand Companies, Inc. →

Sand Companies, Inc. reported unauthorized access to an employee's email account between April 15-16, 2020, likely via phishing. The company detected the incident on June 19, 2020, reset credentials, engaged an IT security firm, and offered one year of Kroll identity monitoring to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 65 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 53 days

Apr 15, 2020

Begins

Jun 19, 2020

Discovered

Aug 11, 2020

Filed

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

Indiana State AGbd_368be7e43e8262802020-08-11Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_f47bd2094d514e162020-08-11Verified

Name: Sand Companies, Inc.
norm: sand companies

Name: Sand Companies, Inc.
norm: sand companies

Discovered: Jun 19, 2020
Breach occurred: Apr 15, 2020 – Apr 16, 2020
Undetected for: 65 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 20state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Reset the password to the employee’s email account
Launched an investigation, with the assistance of an outside professional IT security firm
Arranged for Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for one year
Changes made: Implemented additional safeguards and technical security measures to help further protect personal information and secure our email accounts
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(53 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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Indiana State AGAug 11 · first

Massachusetts State AGAug 11 · first

Montana State AGAug 11 · 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/Sand-Companies-Consumer-ltr.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 11, 2020
Raw hash: b13c72d0b210c6916148401948989f431924fcb58488b9daa3ba024137c9c171

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySand Companies, Inc.

Victim entitySand Companies, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jun 19, 2020

Stated responseReset the password to the employee’s email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov