AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)PIILowContained

Vermont Department of Labor

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 15, 2023

Filed

Sep 13, 2023

To disclose

29 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Vermont Department of Labor →

Vermont Department of Labor notified consumers that an unknown individual accessed documents uploaded via a website search function on or about August 9, 2023, due to a misconfiguration during a third-party vendor website upgrade. The incident exposed names and other personal data. The state discovered the issue on August 15, 2023, corrected the configuration, and offered one year of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday29 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

undetected · 6 days

discovery → filing · 29 days

Aug 9, 2023

Begins

Aug 15, 2023

Discovered

Sep 13, 2023

Filed

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

Name: Vermont Department of Labor
norm: vermont department of labor

Name: Vermont Department of Labor
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Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Aug 15, 2023
Breach occurred: Aug 9, 2023
Undetected for: 6 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 13, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)PII
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External

During the incident: Removed your document(s)
Corrected the website misconfiguration
Conducted a thorough review of the documents that had been accessed
Arranged for you to receive credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through the company IDX at no cost to you
Working with our web hosting vendor to mitigate the chance of something similar occurring in the future
Changes made: Corrected the website misconfiguration
Working with our web hosting vendor to mitigate the chance of something similar occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 29 days(29 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.

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/2023-09-13-vermont-department-labor-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 13, 2023
Raw hash: 2ed4629d126d29507fbe28f993c6dba46a0981f75ca8379dee7dc893a960fa90

Reporting entityVermont Department of Labor

Victim entityVermont Department of Labor

Incidentdiscovered Aug 15, 2023

Stated responseRemoved your document(s)

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov