Social EngineeringAgriculture & FoodAgriculturePhishingEmail MisuseTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Illinois Foundation Seeds, Inc. (IFSI)

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jun 21, 2021

Filed

Aug 16, 2021

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Illinois Foundation Seeds, Inc. (IFSI) →

Illinois Foundation Seeds, Inc. notified affected individuals of a cybersecurity incident where an employee email account was compromised between Jan 18 and Feb 24, 2021. The breach likely exposed personal information contained in emails. The company engaged a third-party firm, secured the email environment, and offered one year of Kroll identity monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 154 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 56 days

Jan 18, 2021

Begins

Jun 21, 2021

Discovered

Aug 16, 2021

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Illinois Foundation Seeds, Inc. (IFSI)
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Name: Illinois Foundation Seeds, Inc. (IFSI)
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Industry: Agriculture & Foodllm

Discovered: Jun 21, 2021
Breach occurred: Jan 18, 2021 – Feb 24, 2021
Undetected for: 154 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Engaged a third-party cyber security firm to assist with the investigation
Took action to assure the security of our email environment
Reviewed the emails and attachments that could have been accessed in the account
Provided one year of complimentary identity monitoring services through Kroll
Changes made: Implemented additional measures to further enhance security protocols
Provided continued education and training to employees
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.

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/notificationLetter-53.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 16, 2021
Raw hash: d117fd8d7b3add2f862b56fa8b11f84fd0f93deb54a0978fdfb2d3484b013e13

Reporting entityIllinois Foundation Seeds, Inc. (IFSI)

Victim entityIllinois Foundation Seeds, Inc. (IFSI)

Incidentdiscovered Jun 21, 2021

Stated responseEngaged a third-party cyber security firm to assist with the investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov