AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Chester County Probation/Parole and Pretrial Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 7, 2025

Filed

Jan 16, 2025

To disclose

9 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Chester County Probation/Parole and Pretrial Services →

Chester County Probation Parole and Pretrial Services (PA) notified consumers that on January 7, 2025, employees mistakenly emailed personal information (names and SSNs) of DUI program participants externally. The organization notified the PA Attorney General, offered Experian credit monitoring, and is retraining staff and strengthening security. No specific count of affected individuals was disclosed in the filing.

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Vermont clock✓ VT AG ≤14 bday9 days discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 days

Jan 7, 2025

Discovered

Jan 16, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

10 wks faster

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Delaware State AGbd_2d64d6cb8f8efe3c2025-01-16Verified
Maine State AGbd_4dd6c39c7b88ed4b2025-01-16Candidate
Nebraska State AGbd_5bfeb1212dbb4faa2025-01-16Verified
Indiana State AGbd_d5b7e43fc1edf3c42025-01-16Verified

Show 3 more filings ↓up to 301d gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_0771a5d704e339a12025-01-23 · +7dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_c65a57ff489bf1ab2025-01-27 · +11dVerified
Maryland State AGbd_792778bdae42bfb72025-11-13 · +301dVerified

Name: Chester County Probation/Parole and Pretrial Services
norm: chester county probation parole and pretrial

Name: Chester County Probation/Parole and Pretrial Services
norm: chester county probation parole and pretrial
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Jan 7, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 16, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Provided notice of this incident to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office and all other appropriate regulators

During the incident: Began an investigation to determine what happened and whose information was impacted
Began locating addresses for the affected individuals
Provided notice of this incident to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office and all other appropriate regulators
Changes made: Strengthening security measures protecting personal information maintained by the County DUI Program
Creating additional security procedures for communicating with individuals in the County DUI Program
Retraining all County employees regarding email security practices
Investigating additional tools to strengthen data security
Offered complimentary identity monitoring services through Experian
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 days(9 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG ≤14 bday
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 8 states

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Delaware State AGJan 16 · first

Maine State AGJan 16 · first

Nebraska State AGJan 16 · first

Indiana State AGJan 16 · first

Vermont State AGJan 16 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+7d

Massachusetts State AG+11d

Maryland State AG+301d

Pattern: first filing Jan 16 (DE), last Nov 13 (MD) — a 301-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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-01-16-chester-county-probation-parole-and-pretrial-services-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 16, 2025
Raw hash: f99cc84c47238515e35355b13320d511644a1ff190d6bb3a768cc0f3eb894a84

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityChester County Probation/Parole and Pretrial Services

Victim entityChester County Probation/Parole and Pretrial Services

Incidentdiscovered Jan 7, 2025

Stated responseBegan an investigation to determine what happened and whose information was impacted

ComplianceVT AG ≤14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov