Social EngineeringManufacturingManufacturingPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Smead Manufacturing

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 1, 2023

Filed

Mar 29, 2023

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Smead Manufacturing →

Smead Manufacturing notified Montana residents of a phishing incident resulting in unauthorized access to an employee email account between Feb 1-7, 2023. Affected data included names and Social Security numbers of former and current employees. Smead secured the account, investigated, and offered 2 years of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 56 days

Feb 1, 2023

Begins

Feb 1, 2023

Discovered

Mar 29, 2023

Filed

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_de8a95de1ad468bb2023-03-29Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_794a55402f64bc472023-04-03 · +5dVerified

Name: Smead Manufacturing
norm: smead manufacturing
Domain: smead.com

Name: Smead Manufacturing
norm: smead manufacturing
Domain: smead.com
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Feb 1, 2023
Breach occurred: Feb 1, 2023 – Feb 7, 2023
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 29, 2023
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Promptly took steps to secure the account
Began an investigation into the nature and scope of the activity
Reviewing and enhancing our existing policies, processes and security measures
Offering you two (2) years of access to credit monitoring services through Experian at no cost to you
Changes made: Reviewing and enhancing our existing policies, processes and security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(56 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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Indiana State AGMar 29 · first

Montana State AGMar 29 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Mar 29 (IN), last Apr 3 (NH) — a 5-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-150.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 29, 2023
Raw hash: 9d1aac05dd1f2d3e1b4689a4f5879b599c0b3e67889098819d37f01437790131

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySmead Manufacturing

Victim entitySmead Manufacturing

Incidentdiscovered Feb 1, 2023

Stated responsePromptly took steps to secure the account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov