Social EngineeringTechnologyInformationPhishingTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

ESJ Towers, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 19, 2018

Filed

Aug 28, 2018

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

ESJ Towers, Inc. notified Montana residents of a phishing attack on employee email accounts discovered on July 19, 2018. Personal information was exposed to an unknown third party. No evidence of misuse was found. The company engaged forensic consultants, notified the FBI, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring via ID Experts.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 40 days

Jul 19, 2018

Discovered

Aug 28, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

13 wks faster

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

Name: ESJ Towers, Inc.
norm: esj towers

Name: ESJ Towers, Inc.
norm: esj towers
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Jul 19, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 28, 2018
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement and are working with the FBI
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Contracted with a forensic consultant
Notified law enforcement and are working with the FBI
Reinforced existing security protocols
Providing additional training to employees
Offering identity theft protection services through ID Experts
Changes made: Reinforced existing security protocols to recognize likely phishing schemes
Providing additional training to employees
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(40 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/ESJ-Towers-Inc..pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 28, 2018
Raw hash: 16974177bec58d712bf2b90479a8b1c44be3a27313b70b5576ffc96cb18ba523

Reporting entityESJ Towers, Inc.

Victim entityESJ Towers, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jul 19, 2018

Stated responseContracted with a forensic consultant

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov