Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)MediumContained

University of Montana

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 14, 2016

Filed

Oct 6, 2016

To disclose

22 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for University of Montana →

University of Montana notified an individual that an attacker fraudulently obtained email credentials via phishing on Sept 12, 2016. The attacker accessed an email containing a photo of the individual's Social Security card. The incident was discovered on Sept 14, 2016. The university disabled the account and offered one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days

discovery → filing · 22 days

Sep 12, 2016

Begins

Sep 14, 2016

Discovered

Oct 6, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

Name: University of Montana
norm: university of montana

Name: University of Montana
norm: university of montana
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Sep 14, 2016
Breach occurred: Sep 12, 2016
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 6, 2016
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Disabled the email account
Conducted a thorough forensic investigation
Arranged for a complimentary one-year membership of Experian’s ProtectMyID Alert
Changes made: Work to educate our employees about how to ensure information protection
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 days(22 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/University-of-Montana.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 6, 2016
Raw hash: 835d92b9c7a80b1bf931473014b984b63d74471e90110b5304d2b7201d3f8e24

Reporting entityUniversity of Montana

Victim entityUniversity of Montana

Incidentdiscovered Sep 14, 2016

Stated responseDisabled the email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov