HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailVulnerability ExploitTargetedIdentity (basic)Financial accountCredentialsLowActive

Block and Company (MMF Industries) (2)

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 21, 2016

Filed

Mar 31, 2016

To disclose

10 days

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Block and Company (MMF Industries) (2) →2 incidents on file

Block and Company, Inc. notified Montana residents of a cyber attack where malicious code was placed on its web server around Feb 9, 2016, discovered March 21, 2016. Personal info including names, addresses, emails, and credit card details were potentially impacted. The company engaged forensic investigators and notified the FBI.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 41 days

discovery → filing · 10 days

Feb 9, 2016

Begins

Mar 21, 2016

Discovered

Mar 31, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

7 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

Massachusetts State AGbd_cf209a5b7c86e92c2016-04-01 · +1dVerified

Name: Block and Company (MMF Industries) (2)
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Name: Block and Company (MMF Industries) (2)
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Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Mar 21, 2016
Breach occurred: Feb 9, 2016
Undetected for: 41 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 30, 2016
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountCredentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Launched an internal investigation
Engaged a premier cybersecurity firm to assist in our containment and remediation efforts as well as to conduct a forensic investigation
Notified law enforcement, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Changes made: Installation of a Website Application Firewall/Intrusion Prevention System (WAF/IPS)
Scanned several times a day using technology that is capable of identifying any Indicator of Compromise (IoC)
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 days(10 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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Montana State AGMar 31 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

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/Block-and-Company-MMF-Industries.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 31, 2016
Raw hash: 65b15eccf99266b36c24e89bb75ec4c630d8edc793c918148f721fa14012a479

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBlock and Company (MMF Industries) (2)

Victim entityBlock and Company (MMF Industries) (2)

Incidentdiscovered Mar 21, 2016

Stated responseLaunched an internal investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov