AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Teton County

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 22, 2021

Filed

Mar 24, 2022

To disclose

13 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Teton County →2 incidents on file

Teton County, Idaho, notified individuals of a data security incident involving its online public record search portal. Sensitive personal information, including names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers, was potentially accessible via the portal until December 22, 2021. The County secured the portal, engaged forensic investigators, and offered one year of Experian credit monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 13 weeks / 92 days

Dec 22, 2021

Discovered

Mar 24, 2022

Filed

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Idaho State AGbd_2a8942294ca6026f2022-03-24Verified by operator
Idaho State AGbd_e24a9cedf5ef81922022-03-03 · +21dCandidate

Name: Teton County
norm: teton county
Domain: co.teton.id.us

Name: Teton County
norm: teton county
Domain: co.teton.id.us
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Dec 22, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 24, 2022
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1119 Automated Collection
Regulator citations: Providing notice of this incident to appropriate state regulators

During the incident: Removed access to the portal and secured all such personal information from future online searches
Launched an investigation
Engaged legal counsel with an expertise in cybersecurity
Hired a nationally recognized cyber security and digital forensics firm to assist with the investigation
Conducted a Dark Web search
Providing notice of this incident to appropriate state regulators
Changes made: Searching all documents for sensitive information so they can be removed from the public records database
Ensuring newly added documents do not contain sensitive information
Investing in internal processes, tools, and resources to reduce the likelihood that this could happen again
Continuously working to identify and mitigate threats and evaluate our IT security protocols
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 weeks(92 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 2 states

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Idaho State AGMar 3 · first

Idaho State AG+21d

Montana State AG+21d · this page

Pattern: first filing Mar 3 (ID), last Mar 24 (MT) — a 21-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-Notification-Letter-277.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 24, 2022
Raw hash: a76441193f8e66af4a070ea04def6a59462c045c9abfb39da9929136db50fffa

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTeton County

Victim entityTeton County

Incidentdiscovered Dec 22, 2021

Stated responseRemoved access to the portal and secured all such personal information from future online searches

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov