Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

James A. Scott & Son, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 6, 2019

Filed

Dec 10, 2019

To disclose

44 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for James A. Scott & Son, Inc. →2 incidents on file

James A. Scott & Son, Inc., an insurance agency, notified affected individuals of a phishing campaign that compromised employee email accounts. Unauthorized access occurred between Feb 5 and Mar 21, 2019. The incident may have exposed personal information (PII) and financial account numbers stored in the emails. The company engaged forensic investigators, reset credentials, implemented MFA, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 44 weeks / 307 days

Feb 5, 2019

Begins

Feb 6, 2019

Discovered

Dec 10, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+35 wks slower

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

Name: James A. Scott & Son, Inc.
norm: james a scott son

Name: James A. Scott & Son, Inc.
norm: james a scott son
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 6, 2019
Breach occurred: Feb 5, 2019 – Mar 21, 2019
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 17, 2019
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1114 Email CollectionT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Disabled the employee’s email accounts and completed a password reset for the email accounts
Implemented multi-factor authentication for all employee email accounts
Implemented additional technical safeguards to increase the security of our email system
Engaged a third-party forensic investigator
Offering twenty-four (24) months of free credit monitoring, fraud consultation, and identity theft restoration services through Kroll
Changes made: Implemented multi-factor authentication for all employee email accounts
Implemented additional technical safeguards to increase the security of our email system
Researching appropriate training for all staff on information security practices and email phishing prevention
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 44 weeks(307 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/OCP/Consumer-41.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 10, 2019
Raw hash: 1193328bc7374f0a36d1d1f87f207df05c3d439296da51b6351dd4074a9e2711

Reporting entityJames A. Scott & Son, Inc.

Victim entityJames A. Scott & Son, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Feb 6, 2019

Stated responseDisabled the employee’s email accounts and completed a password reset for the email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov