Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Inventors Hall of Fame

bd_b1c379bd485e1515 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 20, 2021

Filed

May 3, 2021

To disclose

13 days

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Inventors Hall of Fame →

National Inventors Hall of Fame notified Montana residents of a security incident where an unauthorized individual accessed one employee email account between Jan 27 and Feb 3, 2021. The breach was discovered on April 20, 2021, after forensic review revealed personal information (including SSNs) was contained in the email. The organization offered one year of Equifax credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 83 days

discovery → filing · 13 days

Jan 27, 2021

Begins

Apr 20, 2021

Discovered

May 3, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

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

Washington State AGbd_5b457c476bc609a42021-05-04 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_43cc6b17263e164e2021-05-07 · +4dVerified

Name: Inventors Hall of Fame
norm: inventors hall of fame

Name: Inventors Hall of Fame
norm: inventors hall of fame
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 20, 2021
Breach occurred: Jan 27, 2021 – Feb 3, 2021
Undetected for: 83 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Contained the account
Launched an investigation in consultation with outside cybersecurity professionals
Conducted extensive forensic investigation and manual document review
Offering a complimentary one-year membership of Equifax Credit WatchTM Gold
Changes made: Continually evaluate and modify practices and internal controls to enhance the security and privacy of your personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 days(13 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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Montana State AGMay 3 · first · this page

Washington State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+4d

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/a-notif-44.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 3, 2021
Raw hash: 61e185952467b093c3e45f638a713f63e1ecad1d5fad6e52214cf0052155de5f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityInventors Hall of Fame

Victim entityInventors Hall of Fame

Incidentdiscovered Apr 20, 2021

Stated responseContained the account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov