MalwareFinancial ServicesTechnologyFinanceRansomwareRansom PaidData ExfiltratedData EncryptedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

Perkins & Co.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Dec 3, 2020

Filed

Apr 23, 2021

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

1,459state residents only

Linked

29 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Perkins & Co. →6 incidents on file

Cascade Corporation notified Montana residents of a ransomware incident involving third-party vendor Perkins & Co and its hosting provider Netgain. Attackers accessed servers between Nov 8 and Dec 3, 2020, encrypting files and exfiltrating PII including SSNs and financial data. Netgain paid a ransom. Perkins engaged forensic vendors and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 25 days

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 141 days

Nov 8, 2020

Begins

Dec 3, 2020

Discovered

Apr 23, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+12 wks slower

This filing is one of 29 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of Netgain Networks supply-chain incident (2021) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_610cc7cd82ffe1fc2022-05-27 · +399dVerified by operator
Maine State AGbd_b09bf7a0d1084a492022-05-27 · +399dVerified by operator
Massachusetts State AGbd_bf5fbe9cd13d56d02022-05-27 · +399dVerified by operator
California State AGbd_d8abad6eabb79ff82022-05-27 · +399dVerified by operator

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New Hampshire State AGbd_74b4a2c65ecffaf02022-06-03 · +406dVerified by operator
California State AGbd_32f04329d39de2072022-08-12 · +476dVerified by operator
Maine State AGbd_a5e34a8d20612f032022-08-12 · +476dVerified by operator
New Hampshire State AGbd_93170f27b6189a1f2022-08-15 · +479dVerified by operator
Maine State AGbd_1082f5dc91ef0c192022-10-03 · +528dVerified by operator
New Hampshire State AGbd_e7f5945f3e1b9bfe2022-10-07 · +532dVerified by operator

Showing first 10 of 28 linked disclosures.

Name: Cascade Corporation
norm: cascade
Domain: perkinsaccounting.com

Name: Perkins & Co.
norm: perkins
Domain: perkinsaccounting.com
Industry: Financial ServicesllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Dec 3, 2020
Breach occurred: Nov 8, 2020 – Dec 3, 2020
Undetected for: 25 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 1, 2021
Affected individuals: 1,459state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 ChannelT1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Reported this incident to applicable state data privacy regulatory authorities

During the incident: Partnered with an outside 'data mining' vendor to determine precisely what and whose personal information may have been impacted
Offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services through IDX for a period of 12 months
Reported this incident to applicable state data privacy regulatory authorities
Changes made: Implementing additional advanced threat protection tools
Resetting passwords
Reviewing and restricting access rights
Hardening network security rules and protocols
Retaining an expert consultant to help provide Perkins and its clients with an even higher level of data security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(141 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 5 states

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Montana State AGApr 23 · first · this page

Maine State AG+399d

Massachusetts State AG+399d

California State AG+399d

New Hampshire State AG+406d

California State AG+476d

Maine State AG+476d

New Hampshire State AG+479d

Maine State AG+528d

New Hampshire State AG+532d

Pattern: first filing Apr 23 (MT), last Oct 7 (NH) — a 532-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 28 — the full spread may be wider.

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/Perkins-Notif.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 23, 2021
Raw hash: 76d64a6ffcb0bbe6671f95e4c42106fb15041cc1e859e5a1759aa2d14c7e823d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCascade Corporation

Victim entityPerkins & Co.

Incidentdiscovered Dec 3, 2020

Stated responsePartnered with an outside 'data mining' vendor to determine precisely what and whose personal information may have been impacted

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov