Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

McDonald Zaring Insurance Inc.

bd_ee8d64b6a45b6f34 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 10, 2021

Filed

Sep 20, 2021

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

41state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for McDonald Zaring Insurance Inc. →

McDonald Zaring Insurance Inc. notified Montana residents of a phishing incident on August 10, 2021, where an employee's email was compromised. Unauthorized actors accessed specific emails containing sensitive personal information. No data exfiltration was confirmed. The company engaged forensic investigators, reset credentials, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 41 days

Aug 10, 2021

Discovered

Sep 20, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed41 affectedView incident

Name: McDonald Zaring Insurance Inc.
norm: mcdonald zaring insurance

Name: McDonald Zaring Insurance Inc.
norm: mcdonald zaring insurance
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 10, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 20, 2021
Affected individuals: 41state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Engaged a specialized cybersecurity firm to conduct a forensic investigation
Changed the subject employee’s email passwords
Changed the subject employee’s email address in its entirety
Terminated and signed out any account related to the subject employee
Provided access to single bureau credit monitoring services at no charge
Provided proactive fraud assistance through Cyberscout
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(41 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-notification-letter-15.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 20, 2021
Raw hash: 69dfb5625ab2433f4c06420bffb707a63f911eb51e6b43955eecdf6bb35563c1

Reporting entityMcDonald Zaring Insurance Inc.

Victim entityMcDonald Zaring Insurance Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 10, 2021

Stated responseEngaged a specialized cybersecurity firm to conduct a forensic investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov