HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial credentialsMediumContained

Department of Commerce Federal Credit Union

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 27, 2019

Filed

Mar 6, 2020

To disclose

27 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Department of Commerce Federal Credit Union →2 incidents on file

Department of Commerce Federal Credit Union notified members that an unauthorized third party accessed an employee's email account on August 27, 2019. Personal information including names, SSNs, driver's licenses, and financial data may have been exposed. The credit union secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, and offered one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 27 weeks / 192 days

Aug 27, 2019

Begins

Aug 27, 2019

Discovered

Mar 6, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+19 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_5e11fbff734f84b52020-03-06Verified

Name: Department of Commerce Federal Credit Union
norm: department of commerce federal credit union

Name: Department of Commerce Federal Credit Union
norm: department of commerce federal credit union
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 27, 2019
Breach occurred: Aug 27, 2019
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial credentials
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Secured the email account to prevent further access
Retained a leading forensic security firm to investigate the incident
Offering a complimentary one year membership to Experian IdentityWorksSM Credit 3B
Changes made: Strengthening email security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 weeks(192 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGMar 6 · first

Montana State AGMar 6 · 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/OCP/Consumer-75.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 6, 2020
Raw hash: a570460b46b8e48eb35398e362565255fd018ef22b1e3d67715a90f2c089b76a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityDepartment of Commerce Federal Credit Union

Victim entityDepartment of Commerce Federal Credit Union

Incidentdiscovered Aug 27, 2019

Stated responseSecured the email account to prevent further access

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov