AccidentalTechnologyInformationMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumResolved

TechWise

bd_322d06181878f7b0 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 8, 2017

Filed

Feb 10, 2017

To disclose

2 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for TechWise →

TechWise disclosed that on January 24, 2017, W-2 forms containing employee PII (names, SSNs, addresses, wages) were disclosed in error. The incident was discovered on February 8, 2017. TechWise notified law enforcement and IRS/CI, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring via Experian to affected employees.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 15 days

discovery → filing · 2 days

Jan 24, 2017

Begins

Feb 8, 2017

Discovered

Feb 10, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

18 wks faster

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

Name: TechWise
norm: techwise

Name: TechWise
norm: techwise
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Feb 8, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 24, 2017
Undetected for: 15 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1074 Data Staged
Regulator citations: Notified the Colorado Springs Police DepartmentNotified the Internal Revenue Service/Criminal Investigation (IRS/CI)

During the incident: Notified the Colorado Springs Police Department and the Internal Revenue Service/Criminal Investigation (IRS/CI)
Offering credit and identity monitoring services for 24 months at no cost through Experian
Enhancing the security of how we handle W-2 information
Changes made: Enhancing the security of how we handle W-2 information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 2 days(2 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/TechWise.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 10, 2017
Raw hash: 6945b8746089237c4a7e7c6169d968289e4221ef5b40b3db24209ead26c86cd0

Reporting entityTechWise

Victim entityTechWise

Incidentdiscovered Feb 8, 2017

Stated responseNotified the Colorado Springs Police Department and the Internal Revenue Service/Criminal Investigation (IRS/CI)

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov