HackingEnergy & UtilitiesUtilitiesStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)MediumContained

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 18, 2019

Filed

Apr 26, 2019

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC →

Coates Field Service, Inc., a right-of-way representative for American Electric Power, notified landowners in Montana of a data security incident. On February 18, 2019, an unauthorized individual accessed a Coates employee's email account. The incident may have exposed names and other personal information from easement transactions. Coates secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, and offered one year of credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 67 days

Feb 18, 2019

Discovered

Apr 26, 2019

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2 affectedView incident

Name: AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC
norm: american electric power
Domain: aep.com

Name: AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC
norm: american electric power
Domain: aep.com
Industry: Energy & Utilitiesnaics map

Discovered: Feb 18, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 26, 2019
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Secured the account
Retained an outside computer forensic firm
Implemented additional safeguards and technical security measures
Offered complimentary one-year membership in Experian’s IdentityWorksTM Credit 3B
Changes made: Implemented additional safeguards and technical security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(67 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/CON-MONTANA.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 26, 2019
Raw hash: c2c69775ac8ac050b543d8ea0bb07dcdecb11dfe70939bf9c99bf6b09c61426e

Reporting entityAMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC

Victim entityAMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC

Incidentdiscovered Feb 18, 2019

Stated responseSecured the account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov