MisuseFinancial ServicesFinancePrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Bank of the West

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 5, 2017

Filed

Dec 5, 2017

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Bank of the West →10 incidents on file

Bank of the West notified the NH Attorney General of a breach involving 3 NH residents. An employee inappropriately accessed loan applications containing PII (SSN, DL, DOB) from a San Ramon, CA loan center. The breach was discovered on Oct 5, 2017, following an arrest at Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport. Notifications and credit monitoring offers were sent on Dec 5, 2017.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 61 days

Oct 5, 2017

Discovered

Dec 5, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_a68be9da9b9495a22017-12-05Candidate

Name: Bank of the West
norm: bank of the west

Name: Bank of the West
norm: bank of the west
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 5, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 5, 2017
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Reports have been made to law enforcement
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Began conducting an internal investigation
Written letters of explanation will be sent on December 5, 2017 to the individuals affected
Offers of credit monitoring services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(61 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Montana State AGDec 5 · first

New Hampshire State AGDec 5 · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/bank-west-20171205.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 5, 2017
Raw hash: c4440c5cf7dedcdb630ed06ff99bc990e0fe7ee5fe04a7772284f9a5b6df8ce8

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBank of the West

Victim entityBank of the West

Incidentdiscovered Oct 5, 2017

Stated responseBegan conducting an internal investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov