Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesProfessional ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Conner Strong & Buckelew Companies, LLC

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 26, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Conner Strong & Buckelew Companies, LLC →

Conner Strong & Buckelew (CSB) notified Montana residents of unauthorized access to certain employee email accounts between Feb 7 and Mar 30, 2022. The incident likely resulted from phishing leading to credential compromise. Personal information of clients was potentially accessed. CSB engaged forensic investigators, reset passwords, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring via Experian.

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Incident timeline

Feb 7, 2022

Begins

Jun 26, 2023

Filed

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_447618fb721d94ec2023-06-26Verified
Vermont State AGbd_84a012827c3ac59a2023-06-26Verified
Indiana State AGbd_b9caa5e5c0f7c9622023-06-26Verified
Maine State AGbd_dff756e1bb0e4c062023-06-26Verified

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Vermont State AGbd_a52999f673a4fb4e2023-05-10 · +47dVerified

Name: Conner Strong & Buckelew Companies, LLC
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Name: Conner Strong & Buckelew Companies, LLC
norm: conner strong buckelew companies
Industry: Financial ServicesllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Feb 7, 2022 – Mar 30, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: notified appropriate state and federal regulators
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Immediately took steps to secure the accounts
Launched an investigation with the assistance of third-party forensic investigators
Reset the impacted email account passwords
Confirmed the security of our employee email accounts and related systems
Reviewing and strengthening our existing policies, procedures, and safeguards related to cybersecurity
Notified appropriate state and federal regulators
Offering you complimentary access to 12 months of credit and identity monitoring, fraud consultation, and identity theft restoration services through Experian
Changes made: Reviewing and strengthening our existing policies, procedures, and safeguards related to cybersecurity
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

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Vermont State AGMay 10 · first

Massachusetts State AG+47d

Vermont State AG+47d

Indiana State AG+47d

Maine State AG+47d

Montana State AG+47d · this page

Pattern: first filing May 10 (VT), last Jun 26 (MT) — a 47-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/Consumer-notification-letter-371.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 26, 2023
Raw hash: d5042340dac285367dd6c616268466c55a10381f31d1194eb367e553c9842b5b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityConner Strong & Buckelew Companies, LLC

Victim entityConner Strong & Buckelew Companies, LLC

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseImmediately took steps to secure the accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov