HackingManufacturingManufacturingStolen CredentialsTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Klondex Gold & Silver Mining Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 20, 2017

Filed

Feb 9, 2017

To disclose

20 days

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

65%

Klondex Gold & Silver Mining Company notified employees of a data breach on Jan 20, 2017, where an outside actor fraudulently obtained W-2 forms containing names, addresses, and SSNs. The company reported the incident to police and the FBI and provided two years of complimentary LifeLock identity monitoring to affected employees.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 20 days

Jan 20, 2017

Begins

Jan 20, 2017

Discovered

Feb 9, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2 affectedView incident

Name: Klondex Gold & Silver Mining Company
norm: klondex gold & silver mining

Name: Klondex Gold & Silver Mining Company
norm: klondex gold & silver mining
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Jan 20, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 20, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 6, 2017
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Filed a report with the police and the FBI
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Filed a report with the police and the FBI
Secured the services of LifeLock to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for two years
Provided IRS Form 14039 and contact information for credit bureaus
Changes made: Determined the cause of the incident and are taking immediate actions to prevent future incidents of this nature
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 days(20 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/Klondex-Mines.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 9, 2017
Raw hash: 99330f21cd5ff4bb01a8cce5bea33695842f2f73c57dbfc4a0e9e5de3fdad0b3

Reporting entityKlondex Gold & Silver Mining Company

Victim entityKlondex Gold & Silver Mining Company

Incidentdiscovered Jan 20, 2017

Stated responseFiled a report with the police and the FBI

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov