Social EngineeringTechnologyProfessional ServicesInformationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

BEACON SALES ACQUISITION, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 4, 2019

Filed

Mar 7, 2019

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for BEACON SALES ACQUISITION, INC. →2 incidents on file

Beacon Sales Acquisition, Inc. notified Montana residents of a data breach where an employee's email account was accessed via phishing on or about Dec 3, 2018. The incident exposed names, SSNs, and mailing addresses. The company blocked access, investigated, and offered one year of credit monitoring and identity theft insurance.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 63 days

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 31 days

Dec 3, 2018

Begins

Feb 4, 2019

Discovered

Mar 7, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

14 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_ea40d1ae06bc49d62019-03-12 · +5dVerified

Name: BEACON SALES ACQUISITION, INC.
norm: beacon sales acquisition

Name: BEACON SALES ACQUISITION, INC.
norm: beacon sales acquisition
Industry: TechnologyllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 4, 2019
Breach occurred: Dec 3, 2018
Undetected for: 63 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 7, 2019
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Blocked the unauthorized access
Investigated the incident thoroughly
Conducted a hand-review process to identify information at risk
Offered one year of free credit monitoring through Experian
Offered $1 million in identity theft insurance through Experian
Changes made: Identified measures to improve IT security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(31 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Montana State AGMar 7 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Mar 7 (MT), last Mar 12 (MA) — a 5-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/CON-Notice-to-Montana.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 7, 2019
Raw hash: 979e5a95d9c81fc86b40774a439a2ee96210f9aaddc8c37292147e4c6ab1034b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBEACON SALES ACQUISITION, INC.

Victim entityBEACON SALES ACQUISITION, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Feb 4, 2019

Stated responseBlocked the unauthorized access

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov