HackingEnergy & UtilitiesUtilitiesStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Star Refining

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 29, 2021

Filed

Jul 22, 2021

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Star Refining →

Star Refining notified Montana residents that an unauthorized third party accessed a limited number of user email accounts on April 29, 2021. The incident potentially exposed names, addresses, SSNs, driver's license numbers, and financial account information. No evidence of actual data access was found, but the company engaged forensic experts and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 12 weeks / 84 days

Apr 29, 2021

Discovered

Jul 22, 2021

Filed

This filing is one of 5 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_2f477d110fa003962021-07-22Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_9558641e4a99c80d2021-07-22Verified
Maine State AGbd_8cadec030dbe3ad52021-07-21 · +1dCandidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_378d7ac21aec3b692021-07-28 · +6dVerified

Name: Star Refining
norm: star refining
Domain: starrefining.com

Name: Star Refining
norm: star refining
Domain: starrefining.com
Industry: Energy & Utilitiesllm

Discovered: Apr 29, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Hired third-party experts to remediate and further secure our systems
Performed an investigation into the unauthorized activity
Offering a complimentary one-year membership to Experian’s IdentityWorks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(84 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

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Maine State AGJul 21 · first

Maine State AG+1d

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Montana State AG+1d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Jul 21 (ME), last Jul 28 (NH) — a 7-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/a-notif-118.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 22, 2021
Raw hash: 8bb35e276ce30a8457ea340b60e3a8f6df49d1b62125c903ccf81cccaf4a3e07

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityStar Refining

Victim entityStar Refining

Incidentdiscovered Apr 29, 2021

Stated responseHired third-party experts to remediate and further secure our systems

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov