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Social EngineeringEnergy & UtilitiesUtilitiesPhishingTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

CRIUS ENERGY, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 27, 2018

Filed

May 18, 2018

To disclose

21 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for CRIUS ENERGY, LLC

Crius Energy, LLC notified Montana residents of a data breach resulting from a phishing attack on or around January 22, 2018. The incident exposed names, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, and potentially Social Security numbers. Confirmation occurred on April 27, 2018. Affected individuals were offered 24 months of credit monitoring and identity theft recovery services through ID Experts.

Incident timeline

undetected · 95 days
discovery → filing · 21 days

Jan 22, 2018

Begins

Apr 27, 2018

Discovered

May 18, 2018

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

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.