Social EngineeringHospitalityHospitalityPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Welk Resort Group, Inc.

bd_e646fad2217cff73 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Dec 4, 2017

Filed

Jul 25, 2018

To disclose

33 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Welk Resort Group, Inc. →3 incidents on file

Welk Resort Group, Inc. notified Montana residents of a data breach involving unauthorized access to employee email accounts. The incident occurred between November 29 and December 4, 2017, and was discovered on December 4, 2017. Personal information (names) of a small percentage of owners was present in affected emails. No evidence of misuse was found. The company offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 5 days

discovery → filing · 33 weeks / 233 days

Nov 29, 2017

Begins

Dec 4, 2017

Discovered

Jul 25, 2018

Filed

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_5ee9f0ac46ebaa2f2018-07-25Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_77b70c1082af5fff2018-07-25Verified
California State AGbd_4232e60c18c6f6d02018-08-01 · +7dVerified

Name: Welk Resort Group, Inc.
norm: welk resort

Name: Welk Resort Group, Inc.
norm: welk resort
Industry: Hospitalityllm

Discovered: Dec 4, 2017
Breach occurred: Nov 29, 2017 – Dec 4, 2017
Undetected for: 5 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 25, 2018
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notifying state regulators as required by law
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Engaged third-party forensic investigators
Offering twelve (12) months of credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services through AllClear ID at no cost
Changes made: Working to enhance existing security measures
Confirming the ongoing security of our networks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 33 weeks(233 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗

Massachusetts State AGJul 25 · first

New Hampshire State AGJul 25 · first

Montana State AGJul 25 · first · this page

California State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Jul 25 (MA), last Aug 1 (CA) — a 7-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/Welk-Resort-Group.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 25, 2018
Raw hash: 58677728ca9820635258ffb8bd8c3ad2bab75918f6de914fc85d316deb5fac62

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWelk Resort Group, Inc.

Victim entityWelk Resort Group, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Dec 4, 2017

Stated responseEngaged third-party forensic investigators

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov