Social EngineeringManufacturingManufacturingPhishingStolen CredentialsTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentFinancialMediumContained

Distribution International

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 25, 2017

Filed

Jan 27, 2017

To disclose

2 days

Affected

6state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Distribution International →

Distribution International notified Montana AG of a phishing incident on Jan 25, 2017. Spoofed email led to unauthorized access of employee PII (SSN, tax data, compensation). No systems compromised. Law enforcement notified. Credit protection offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 2 days

Jan 25, 2017

Begins

Jan 25, 2017

Discovered

Jan 27, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

10 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed6 affectedView incident

Name: Distribution International
norm: distribution international
Domain: distributionintl.com

Name: Distribution International
norm: distribution international
Domain: distributionintl.com
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Jan 25, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 25, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 27, 2017
Affected individuals: 6state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmploymentFinancial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified law enforcement
Strengthened internal controls
Provided a full package of credit protection services for two years, free-of-charge
Changes made: Strengthened internal controls
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 2 days(2 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/Distribution-International.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 27, 2017
Raw hash: eb0c20965a09895ceab90557cf2ae069f60d43af914bbe7729204d25c2179957

Reporting entityDistribution International

Victim entityDistribution International

Incidentdiscovered Jan 25, 2017

Stated responseNotified law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov