HackingTransportation & LogisticsTransportationStolen CredentialsEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDCredentialsMediumContained

Blue Beacon International

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 15, 2018

Filed

Apr 6, 2018

To disclose

22 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Blue Beacon International →2 incidents on file

Blue Beacon International, Inc. reported unauthorized access to employee portal accounts. The breach occurred between January 29, 2018, and March 15, 2018, and was discovered on March 15, 2018. Affected data included Social Security numbers and portal login credentials for current and former employees. The company disabled the portal, engaged forensic investigators, notified the FBI and IRS/CI, and offered one year of identity monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 45 days

discovery → filing · 22 days

Jan 29, 2018

Begins

Mar 15, 2018

Discovered

Apr 6, 2018

Filed

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_2f792857b2185fbc2018-04-06Verified
Montana State AGbd_c0308294debad44b2018-04-06Candidate

Name: Blue Beacon International
norm: blue beacon

Name: Blue Beacon International
norm: blue beacon
Industry: Transportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: Mar 15, 2018
Breach occurred: Jan 29, 2018 – Mar 15, 2018
Undetected for: 45 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDCredentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of InvestigationNotified the Internal Revenue Service/Criminal Investigation unit (IRS/CI)
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Disabled our employee portal site
Launched an investigation led by an expert team of data security response professionals
Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service/Criminal Investigation unit (IRS/CI)
Offering a complimentary one-year membership of Experian IdentityWorks SM Credit 3B
Changes made: Adding additional security features for the employee portal in addition to other enhancements
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.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGApr 6 · first

Montana State AGApr 6 · first

California State AGApr 6 · 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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-135091
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 6, 2018
Raw hash: c3de4920d821af483457447c96820ad13f57999e516bbe89db95dd9c1339578f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBlue Beacon International

Victim entityBlue Beacon International

Incidentdiscovered Mar 15, 2018

Stated responseDisabled our employee portal site

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov