AccidentalTransportation & LogisticsTransportationMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumResolved

BNSF Railway Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 10, 2023

Filed

Sep 5, 2023

To disclose

26 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for BNSF Railway Company →2 incidents on file

BNSF Railway Company mistakenly emailed a 2022 IRS Form 1099-NEC containing names, addresses, SSNs, and compensation data to another vendor on July 27, 2023. Discovered Aug 10, 2023. Vendor deleted data. Risk assessed as low. Offered 18 months Norton LifeLock.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 14 days

discovery → filing · 26 days

Jul 27, 2023

Begins

Aug 10, 2023

Discovered

Sep 5, 2023

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: BNSF Railway Company
norm: bnsf railway
Domain: bnsf.com

Name: BNSF Railway Company
norm: bnsf railway
Domain: bnsf.com
Industry: Transportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: Aug 10, 2023
Breach occurred: Jul 27, 2023
Undetected for: 14 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1534 Internal Remote Services

During the incident: Asked the vendor to delete the information including the original email
Offering complimentary identity theft protection services through Norton LifeLock for a period of eighteen (18) months
Implementing additional employee training to prevent similar occurrences
Changes made: Implementing additional employee training to prevent similar occurrences
Reviewing this incident and will make any necessary changes to our policies and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 days(26 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/Consumer-notification-letter-639.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 5, 2023
Raw hash: 93fc41082edc3ab2967006162275dc46fe15afd76aa62a82913c8dbf185b54df

Reporting entityBNSF Railway Company

Victim entityBNSF Railway Company

Incidentdiscovered Aug 10, 2023

Stated responseAsked the vendor to delete the information including the original email

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov