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Community Link Inc

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 3, 2017

Filed

Jun 30, 2017

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Community Link Inc →

Community Link, Inc. notified Montana AG that an unauthorized party accessed an employee's email account on May 3, 2017, obtaining names and SSNs. The incident was discovered on the same day. The company locked the account, investigated, and offered one year of Experian ProtectMyID services to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

May 3, 2017

Begins

Jun 30, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

HHS OCRbd_164410f2059b86cb2017-06-30Candidate

Name: Community Link Inc
norm: community link

Name: Community Link Inc
norm: community link
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: May 3, 2017
Breach occurred: May 3, 2017 – May 3, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 30, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDPII
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Locked down the email account
Began an investigation
Offering you a free one-year membership of Experian’s ProtectMyID Alert
Changes made: Implementing additional security measures for the access of email and use of mobile devices
Requiring additional password protection on spreadsheets containing protected health information
Conducting refresher training with staff on privacy and security policies and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(58 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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HHS OCRJun 30 · first

Montana State AGJun 30 · 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/Community-Link.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 30, 2017
Raw hash: bb639a7c105792d263fbe6d619e20d634e4ce10792e3027b40cf45fa64a07eaf

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCommunity Link Inc

Victim entityCommunity Link Inc

Incidentdiscovered May 3, 2017

Stated responseLocked down the email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov