MisuseTelecom & MediaInformationPrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumResolved

GCI Outdoor

bd_ae794acc14f3cdba · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 2, 2017

Filed

Nov 13, 2017

To disclose

11 days

Affected

4state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for GCI Outdoor →2 incidents on file

GCI notified employees of a data breach involving a third-party contractor, The Siegfried Group. An accountant for the contractor downloaded GCI employee names, SSNs, and compensation data to an external drive in July 2015. GCI was notified on Nov 2, 2017. Affected individuals are active employees as of June 30, 2015. GCI engaged forensic investigators, notified law enforcement, and extended credit monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 855 days

discovery → filing · 11 days

Jul 1, 2015

Begins

Nov 2, 2017

Discovered

Nov 13, 2017

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4 affectedView incident

Name: GCI Outdoor
norm: gci outdoor
Domain: gcioutdoor.com

Name: GCI Outdoor
norm: gci outdoor
Domain: gcioutdoor.com
Industry: Telecom & Mediallm

Discovered: Nov 2, 2017
Breach occurred: Jul 1, 2015 – Jul 31, 2015
Undetected for: 855 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 13, 2017
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: reported the incident to law enforcementAPD has created a master police report to cover this incident; the APD case number is 17-510405
Third party: via The Siegfried Group
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Began working with The Siegfried Group and their computer forensics firm to understand the details of the incident and identify GCI employees whose information may have been involved
Reported the incident to law enforcement and are fully cooperating with them
Extended the free credit monitoring and identification theft protection services
Working with our information security team to enhance our controls to detect and prevent this type of incident in the future
Continue to reinforce our overall privacy and security posture internally and with third parties
Changes made: Enhance our controls to detect and prevent this type of incident in the future
Reinforce our overall privacy and security posture internally and with third parties
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 days(11 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/GCI-1.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 13, 2017
Raw hash: 8619689af0175d4f910c18e06093381e071cdaae7536aac1199586244aa609dd

Reporting entityGCI Outdoor

Victim entityGCI Outdoor

Incidentdiscovered Nov 2, 2017

Stated responseBegan working with The Siegfried Group and their computer forensics firm to understand the details of the incident and identify GCI employees whose information may have been involved

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov