HackingGovernmentGovernmentStolen CredentialsEmail MisuseData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Scioto County, Ohio

bd_290806988d152211 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 3, 2025

Filed

Apr 3, 2025

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Scioto County, Ohio →

Scioto County, Ohio, notified consumers of a cyber incident where an unauthorized actor accessed three employee email accounts between Jan 24 and Feb 3, 2025. The actor copied contents of one account, exposing personal information (names, addresses) of affected individuals. No financial data was compromised. The County engaged forensic investigators, reset passwords, and offered 1-year Experian identity monitoring.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday8 weeks 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

undetected · 10 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 59 days

Jan 24, 2025

Begins

Feb 3, 2025

Discovered

Apr 3, 2025

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_3c9d4bee71a49e532025-04-03Candidate
Indiana State AGbd_46a66d8429332c512025-04-03Verified

Name: Scioto County, Ohio
norm: scioto county ohio
Industry: government_public

Name: Scioto County, Ohio
norm: scioto county ohio
Industry: government_public
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Feb 3, 2025
Breach occurred: Jan 24, 2025 – Feb 3, 2025
Undetected for: 10 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 3, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified all appropriate state regulators
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Securing the impacted email accounts by changing the passwords
Retraining employees regarding cybersecurity practices related to email
Communicating with all staff regarding increased awareness of phishing emails
Evaluating our email retention policy
Ongoing investigation of additional tools, training, and third-party monitoring partnerships to strengthen security
Notified all appropriate state regulators
Launched an investigation with the assistance of a nationally recognized digital forensics firm
Changes made: Securing the impacted email accounts by changing the passwords
Retraining employees regarding cybersecurity practices related to email
Communicating with all staff regarding increased awareness of phishing emails
Evaluating our email retention policy
Ongoing investigation of additional tools, training, and third-party monitoring partnerships to strengthen security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(59 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 · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗

Maine State AGApr 3 · first

Indiana State AGApr 3 · first

Vermont State AGApr 3 · 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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-04-03-scioto-county-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 3, 2025
Raw hash: b016af5ec740d22869e459e3d4602f9c651a32831d5aa4ca3088ba6a6c8e5a8c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityScioto County, Ohio

Victim entityScioto County, Ohio

Incidentdiscovered Feb 3, 2025

Stated responseSecuring the impacted email accounts by changing the passwords

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov