Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Community Food Co-op

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 16, 2020

Filed

Sep 11, 2020

To disclose

26 weeks

Affected

56state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Community Food Co-op →

Community Food Co-op notified Montana residents of unauthorized access to an employee email account on March 16, 2020. The attacker likely used stolen credentials to send phishing emails. Affected data included names and Social Security numbers. The company engaged Kroll for identity monitoring and enhanced email security.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 26 weeks / 179 days

Mar 16, 2020

Begins

Mar 16, 2020

Discovered

Sep 11, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+17 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed56 affectedView incident

Name: Community Food Co-op
norm: community food co op

Name: Community Food Co-op
norm: community food co op
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Mar 16, 2020
Breach occurred: Mar 16, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 56state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Reset the employee’s email account password
Launched an investigation, with the assistance of a cyber security firm
Conducted a comprehensive review of the emails and attachments
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring
Changes made: Implementing additional email security
Reinforcing education with our employees on how to identify and avoid phishing emails
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 weeks(179 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/Breach-NotificationDetails-213.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 11, 2020
Raw hash: 5c0c8bc348dbf50fab8d0cd0450c6e386f1a5c6f1df3df54a3c67c421c08673b

Reporting entityCommunity Food Co-op

Victim entityCommunity Food Co-op

Incidentdiscovered Mar 16, 2020

Stated responseReset the employee’s email account password

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov