Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedPIICredentialsFinancial accountLowContained

Happy State Bank

bd_aa1b7f0ac3c73c49 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 1, 2022

Filed

Mar 16, 2023

To disclose

37 weeks

Affected

9state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Happy State Bank →

Happy State Bank notified Montana residents of unauthorized access to an employee's email account between July 28-29, 2022, following a phishing scam. The bank reset credentials, engaged law enforcement, and offered credit monitoring. Data stored in the account was potentially exposed.

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Incident timeline

Jul 28, 2022

Begins

Mar 16, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+29 wks slower

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_08a693c620b144782023-03-16Verified
Maine State AGbd_70e55aee5b5d69a92023-03-16Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_da600f3fa4024c942023-03-16Verified
Maine State AGbd_935e22ed084dd01a2023-04-27 · +42dVerified by operator

Name: Happy State Bank
norm: happy state bank

Name: Happy State Bank
norm: happy state bank
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 1, 2022
Breach occurred: Jul 28, 2022 – Jul 29, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 9state-resident count only
Data types: PIICredentialsFinancial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: reported the incident to federal law enforcement
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Resetting the account password
Performing a review of the affected email account
Reported the incident to federal law enforcement
Offering you access to complimentary credit monitoring services
Changes made: Strengthen the security of our email environment
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 37 weeks(258 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗

Indiana State AGMar 16 · first

Maine State AGMar 16 · first

Massachusetts State AGMar 16 · first

Montana State AGMar 16 · first · this page

Maine State AG+42d

Pattern: first filing Mar 16 (IN), last Apr 27 (ME) — a 42-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/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-121.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 16, 2023
Raw hash: c5991fec97b9159a7c51282d59ef1526db0940df28aa79464a8ad6b92ace6701

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHappy State Bank

Victim entityHappy State Bank

Incidentdiscovered Jul 1, 2022

Stated responseResetting the account password

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov