Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)PIILowContained

Veritex Holdings

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Apr 2, 2020

Filed

Apr 26, 2021

To disclose

13 months

Affected

9state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Veritex Holdings →2 incidents on file

Veritex Community Bank notified Montana residents of unauthorized access to employee email accounts between April 2 and April 27, 2020. The incident, discovered in April 2020, involved phishing leading to credential compromise. Personal information (names) was present in the accounts. No misuse was confirmed. The bank engaged forensic investigators, reset credentials, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 13 months / 389 days

Apr 2, 2020

Begins

Apr 2, 2020

Discovered

Apr 26, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+47 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed9 affectedView incident

Name: Veritex Holdings
norm: veritex holdings

Name: Veritex Holdings
norm: veritex holdings
Also named: Veritex Holdings, Inc.operating subsidiary ofholding company
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Apr 2, 2020
Breach occurred: Apr 2, 2020 – Apr 27, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 31, 2021
Affected individuals: 9state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)PII
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Began an investigation with the assistance of third-party forensic investigators
Changed email account credentials
Investigated to confirm the security of our email network
Working to enhance our existing security processes and protocols
Offering you access to 12 months of identity monitoring services through TransUnion Interactive
Changes made: Working to enhance our existing security processes and protocols
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 months(389 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/Veritex-Notif.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 26, 2021
Raw hash: 00940e09e466f0aaf4f02f5d035251a700ecc83edc2c3b06b56abe16f21806e8

Reporting entityVeritex Holdings

Victim entityVeritex Holdings

Incidentdiscovered Apr 2, 2020

Stated responseBegan an investigation with the assistance of third-party forensic investigators

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov