Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Electrical Consultants, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 1, 2019

Filed

Aug 7, 2019

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

13state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Electrical Consultants, Inc. →

Electrical Consultants, Inc. notified Montana residents of a May 2019 email account compromise. An unauthorized individual accessed a corporate email via suspicious activity (likely phishing), potentially viewing names, addresses, and SSNs. The company reset passwords, engaged forensic experts, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 98 days

May 1, 2019

Discovered

Aug 7, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed13 affectedView incident

Name: Electrical Consultants, Inc.
norm: electrical consultants

Name: Electrical Consultants, Inc.
norm: electrical consultants
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: May 1, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 7, 2019
Affected individuals: 13state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Changed the employee’s password
Enabled additional security controls to protect the account
Engaged independent computer forensic experts to assist us with our investigation
Engaged a third party to conduct a comprehensive review of the employee’s mailbox
Offering identity theft protection services through ID Experts
Changes made: All passwords were reset
Additional security features designed to further protect email accounts have been enabled
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 weeks(98 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/Breach-NotificationDetails-76.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 7, 2019
Raw hash: f26bff2e94284009daf9cbb589fd43c84dbae588849bf2d69e447b95b8b526e2

Reporting entityElectrical Consultants, Inc.

Victim entityElectrical Consultants, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered May 1, 2019

Stated responseChanged the employee’s password

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov