Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumActive

Pacific Quest

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 10, 2017

Filed

Apr 27, 2017

To disclose

17 days

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Pacific Quest →

Pacific Quest issued a supplemental notice regarding an email spoofing/phishing attack on Jan 30, 2017, discovered April 10, 2017. Employee W-2 data (names, SSNs, wages) was exfiltrated. Affected employees offered 36 months of AllClear ID protection. Reporting to FBI, IRS, and state authorities.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 70 days

discovery → filing · 17 days

Jan 30, 2017

Begins

Apr 10, 2017

Discovered

Apr 27, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

6 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

New Hampshire State AGbd_c312a9145d62de9f2017-04-27Verified

Name: Pacific Quest
norm: pacific quest
Domain: pacificquest.org

Name: Pacific Quest
norm: pacific quest
Domain: pacificquest.org
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 10, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 30, 2017
Undetected for: 70 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 12, 2017
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: report the crime to local authoritiesreport the crime to the IRSreport the crime to the FBIreport the crime to state revenue departments
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Report the crime to local authorities, the IRS and the FBI
Conducting a full review of our cyber security policies
Working to implement additional safeguards
Provide additional mandatory training to our employees on safeguarding the privacy and security of information on our systems
Arranged to have AllClear ID protect your identity for 36 months at no cost to you
Changes made: All company security, storage and training systems are under a full review
Working to implement additional safeguards
Provide additional mandatory training to our employees on safeguarding the privacy and security of information on our systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 days(17 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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New Hampshire State AGApr 27 · first

Montana State AGApr 27 · 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Pacific-Quest.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 27, 2017
Raw hash: fbaabf437e5adcf7f34387b5b43a5b44b60f4f963b10587df04bedeac00dd724

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPacific Quest

Victim entityPacific Quest

Incidentdiscovered Apr 10, 2017

Stated responseReport the crime to local authorities, the IRS and the FBI

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov