MalwareTransportation & LogisticsTransportationRansomwareRansom DemandedData ExfiltratedData EncryptedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Estes Express Lines

bd_f46705b840aae476 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 1, 2023

Filed

Dec 4, 2023

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Estes Express Lines →2 incidents on file

Estes Express Lines notified consumers of a ransomware incident discovered on October 1, 2023. An unauthorized actor accessed the IT network, deployed ransomware, and exfiltrated data. The company did not pay the ransom, engaged forensic investigators, and cooperated with the FBI. Affected data included PII, government IDs, and financial account numbers. Kroll provided 12 months of identity monitoring.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday9 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 64 days

Oct 1, 2023

Discovered

Dec 4, 2023

Filed

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by lockbit_3 about this victim predates this filing by 63 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_dc7acd3bd675249c2023-12-05 · +1dVerified
Montana State AGbd_5b50f6cebbb7f4772023-12-01 · +3dVerified
Maine State AGbd_c37017dcce54a7a92023-12-31 · +27dVerified
California State AGbd_c81da27f4e5ac9a02023-12-31 · +27dVerified

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Illinois State AGbd_8133543266aa118c2023-01-01 · +337dCandidate

Name: Estes Express Lines
norm: estes express lines
Domain: estes-express.com

Name: Estes Express Lines
norm: estes express lines
Domain: estes-express.com
Industry: Transportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: Oct 1, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 4, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notifying and cooperating with the FBI

During the incident: Engaged its incident response team, including a world-class third-party forensics, cybersecurity and recovery firm
Notifying and cooperating with the FBI
Successfully locking out the unauthorized threat actor from the Company’s system
Undertaking a full forensic investigation
Remediate the malware and harden the Company’s IT systems
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for 12 months
Changes made: Remediate the malware
Harden the Company’s IT systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(64 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bdayLeak >30d
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

Montana State AG+334d

Vermont State AG+337d · this page

Indiana State AG+338d

Maine State AG+364d

California State AG+364d

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Dec 31 (CA) — a 364-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-12-04-estes-express-lines-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 4, 2023
Raw hash: 119776b724734379254c90cc32186f90fc1201cc79b86f9b25229db0c7f6a396

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityEstes Express Lines

Victim entityEstes Express Lines

Incidentdiscovered Oct 1, 2023

Stated responseEngaged its incident response team, including a world-class third-party forensics, cybersecurity and recovery firm

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov