HackingGovernmentGovernmentStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainIdentity (basic)PIIMediumActive

interpretingWorks

bd_3b5751d9f5be473a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 16, 2021

Filed

Jun 15, 2021

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

3,000state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for interpretingWorks →

Washington State Dept of Labor & Industries notified AG of a breach of interpretingWorks' interpreter scheduling system. A clinic representative with authorized access viewed records of non-patients on May 16, 2021. Up to 3,000 workers' PII (name, appointment details, claim numbers) potentially exposed. L&I offered 12 months of identity theft protection.

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Washington clock✓ WA AG ≤30d4 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

May 16, 2021

Begins

May 16, 2021

Discovered

Jun 15, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3,000 affectedView incident

Name: Washington Department of Labor & Industries
norm: washington department of labor

Name: interpretingWorks
norm: interpretingworks
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: May 16, 2021
Breach occurred: May 16, 2021
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,000state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)PII
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the Washington Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Removed the clinic's access to the records
Offering identity-theft protection services through IDX® to workers whose data may have been exposed
Working with the company to limit access to worker records and prevent this from happening in the future
Changes made: Working with the company to limit access to worker records and prevent this from happening in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(30 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG ≤30d
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM10483.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 15, 2021
Raw hash: c0b9783d1327cd6a75047e4d94b75ec37d7f38800103270bc3960ff1f9ceb762

Reporting entityWashington Department of Labor & Industries

Victim entityinterpretingWorks

Incidentdiscovered May 16, 2021

Stated responseRemoved the clinic's access to the records

ComplianceWA AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com