Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

Frontier Wealth Management

bd_ea7967f6e7852553 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 9, 2018

Filed

Dec 10, 2018

To disclose

18 weeks

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Frontier Wealth Management →

Frontier Wealth Management, LLC notified Montana residents of a data breach involving unauthorized access to an employee email account. The incident occurred between July 2 and August 14, 2018, following suspicious email activity detected on August 9, 2018. Personal information was accessed. The company engaged forensic investigators, reset credentials, and provided 36 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 38 days

discovery → filing · 18 weeks / 123 days

Jul 2, 2018

Begins

Aug 9, 2018

Discovered

Dec 10, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_1cb471bb5a4745512018-12-10Verified

Name: Frontier Wealth Management
norm: frontier wealth management
Domain: fw-mgmt.com

Name: Frontier Wealth Management
norm: frontier wealth management
Domain: fw-mgmt.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 9, 2018
Breach occurred: Jul 2, 2018 – Aug 14, 2018
Undetected for: 38 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 10, 2018
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Launched an internal investigation with the assistance of third-party forensic investigators
Ensuring the password for the affected email account was changed
Taking additional actions to strengthen the security of our email systems
Providing additional training to users on how to identify phishing scams
Providing 36 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services with AllClear ID
Changes made: Taking additional actions to strengthen the security of our email systems
Providing additional training to users on how to identify phishing scams
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 weeks(123 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGDec 10 · first

Montana State AGDec 10 · first · this page

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/Frontier-Wealth-Management-LLC-Frontier.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 10, 2018
Raw hash: 90285b61d7e92450adbbcb5a90bbe9d32487feb38422fc0dfe349d30efeac69f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFrontier Wealth Management

Victim entityFrontier Wealth Management

Incidentdiscovered Aug 9, 2018

Stated responseLaunched an internal investigation with the assistance of third-party forensic investigators

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov