Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesProfessional ServicesFinancePhishingTargetedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Evanson Asset Management

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 10, 2017

Filed

Feb 14, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Evanson Asset Management →

Evanson Asset Management notified customers that a targeted phishing email compromised two employee computers on Jan 9-10, 2017. Unauthorized access was gained to email correspondence containing customer names, email addresses, and financial account numbers. No SSNs were exposed. The firm notified custodian financial institutions to enhance monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 35 days

Jan 9, 2017

Begins

Jan 10, 2017

Discovered

Feb 14, 2017

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

Massachusetts State AGbd_93fafcfd7a8302b42017-02-13 · +1dVerified
South Carolina State AGbd_b49f30d3cfe9aa6d2017-02-17 · +3dVerified

Name: Evanson Asset Management
norm: evanson asset management
Domain: evansonasset.com

Name: Evanson Asset Management
norm: evanson asset management
Domain: evansonasset.com
Industry: Financial ServicesllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 10, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 9, 2017 – Jan 10, 2017
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 10, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Immediately notified the financial institutions with whom your funds are custodied and requested that they enhance their monitoring of your account
Changes made: Updating security controls
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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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Massachusetts State AGFeb 13 · first

Montana State AG+1d · this page

South Carolina State AG+4d

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/Evanson-Asset-Management.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 14, 2017
Raw hash: 1e205358e4286ec823622a5dff56086bb69ff4831285fc7924883bb81e42f037

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityEvanson Asset Management

Victim entityEvanson Asset Management

Incidentdiscovered Jan 10, 2017

Stated responseImmediately notified the financial institutions with whom your funds are custodied and requested that they enhance their monitoring of your account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov