MisuseProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

CBRE Group, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 9, 2020

Filed

Jun 29, 2020

To disclose

20 days

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for CBRE Group, Inc. →2 incidents on file

CBRE, Inc. issued a supplemental notice to Montana employees regarding a security incident where a former employee violated company policy by forwarding emails and records containing personal information, including names and Social Security Numbers, to a personal email address. CBRE engaged forensic investigators and legal counsel, obtained a restraining order, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 20 days

Jun 9, 2020

Discovered

Jun 29, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

15 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_a4d66e8c6d3c441e2020-06-29Verified
Montana State AGbd_61de897efd214c342020-06-26 · +3dCandidate
Indiana State AGbd_ad52e1cfdbc365d42020-06-26 · +3dVerified

Name: CBRE Group, Inc.
norm: cbre group
Domain: cbre.com

Name: CBRE Group, Inc.
norm: cbre group
Domain: cbre.com
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jun 9, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 9, 2020
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Hired a nationally recognized law firm and cyber forensic firm to help with its investigation and remediation
Conducted a forensic investigation of the former employee’s CBRE-issued computer
Performed searches of the dark web
Obtained a temporary restraining order to legally prohibit this former employee from accessing, opening or using any of the information
Sought a court order to grant us access to the former employee’s personal devices and personal email account(s)
Changes made: Strengthen administrative and technical safeguards around the increased remote-working environment
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 days(20 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGJun 26 · first

Indiana State AGJun 26 · first

Massachusetts State AG+3d

Montana State AG+3d · this page

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/CRBE-Inc.-Consumer.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 29, 2020
Raw hash: f3159885aad1a1ae12a59a1b1083a189a63525f80a5249b41bee117e31dd414b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCBRE Group, Inc.

Victim entityCBRE Group, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jun 9, 2020

Stated responseHired a nationally recognized law firm and cyber forensic firm to help with its investigation and remediation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov