HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)PIILowResolved

Barnhill Contracting Company

bd_db84ace93d26a479 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 19, 2019

Filed

Feb 3, 2020

To disclose

24 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Barnhill Contracting Company →

Barnhill Contracting Company notified affected individuals of unauthorized access to three employee email accounts between August 16-21, 2019. The intruder accessed personal information including names. The company engaged forensic experts, reset credentials, and implemented MFA. Affected individuals were offered credit monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 3 days

discovery → filing · 24 weeks / 168 days

Aug 16, 2019

Begins

Aug 19, 2019

Discovered

Feb 3, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+6 wks slower

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_d4a5fea34253e72f2020-02-03Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_a02e856c29801c4b2020-02-07 · +4dVerified

Name: Barnhill Contracting Company
norm: barnhill contracting

Name: Barnhill Contracting Company
norm: barnhill contracting
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 19, 2019
Breach occurred: Aug 16, 2019 – Aug 21, 2019
Undetected for: 3 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 3, 2020
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)PII
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Took steps to secure the email accounts
Began working with outside computer forensics experts
Changed the credentials for the compromised email accounts
Instituted multi-factor authentication for logon for all employee email accounts
Provided access to credit monitoring and identity protection services through Experian
Changes made: Implementing additional safeguards
Reviewing policies and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 24 weeks(168 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Indiana State AGFeb 3 · first

Montana State AGFeb 3 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+4d

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-112.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 3, 2020
Raw hash: f2ad338b377b6e860c2d1947cd90f61f3a7a88331cc3c9e7b3bf77fc7388574d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBarnhill Contracting Company

Victim entityBarnhill Contracting Company

Incidentdiscovered Aug 19, 2019

Stated responseTook steps to secure the email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov