Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingStolen CredentialsTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

City of Cheyenne

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 26, 2018

Filed

Jul 31, 2019

To disclose

40 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for City of Cheyenne →

City Abstract LLC, a title insurance agency, notified affected individuals of a data security incident discovered on October 26, 2018. An employee's email account was compromised via a phishing campaign, potentially exposing PII including names, SSNs, driver's license numbers, and limited financial information. City Abstract reset credentials, engaged forensic investigators, and provided 12 months of credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services through CyberScout.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 40 weeks / 278 days

Oct 26, 2018

Discovered

Jul 31, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+25 wks slower

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

Name: City of Cheyenne
norm: city of cheyenne
Domain: cheyennecity.org

Name: City of Cheyenne
norm: city of cheyenne
Domain: cheyennecity.org
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 26, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 31, 2019
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Changed the employee’s password and email credentials
Retained an independent computer forensics company to conduct an extensive IT investigation
Provided complimentary resources to help protect identity through CyberScout
Secured services of CyberScout for fraud resolution support and credit monitoring
Changes made: Implementing additional spam filters with Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection
Enhancing password policies
Enabling multifactor authentication for access to email accounts
Continuing to educate staff regarding awareness of cyber risks including integration of KnowB4 training
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 40 weeks(278 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/city-abstract-20190731.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 31, 2019
Raw hash: 1c9063b8693a703372b378c742d34b4e0b5f815f597144ff12082ee1a819283b

Reporting entityCity of Cheyenne

Victim entityCity of Cheyenne

Incidentdiscovered Oct 26, 2018

Stated responseChanged the employee’s password and email credentials

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov