MalwareGovernmentGovernmentRansomwareData ExfiltratedData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)PHIMediumContained

Houston Housing Authority

bd_40d397942297549f · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 22, 2024

Filed

Mar 27, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Houston Housing Authority →2 incidents on file

Houston Housing Authority disclosed a cyber-attack discovered on September 22, 2024, involving ransomware encryption and subsequent exfiltration of personal data including SSNs, financial accounts, and health information. Notices were sent to affected individuals starting November 1, 2024. The organization notified law enforcement, enhanced security measures, and offered credit monitoring.

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Leak gap clock⏱ Leak >90d

Incident timeline

Sep 22, 2024

Discovered

Mar 27, 2025

Filed

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by meow about this victim predates this filing by 146 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Sitemeowbd_6c8377e34b865e352024-10-31 · +146dVerified by operator

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_23d74591256b0d802025-03-27Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_e42682b0e419b6572025-03-27Verified

Name: Houston Housing Authority
norm: houston housing authority
Domain: housingforhouston.com

Name: Houston Housing Authority
norm: houston housing authority
Domain: housingforhouston.com
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Sep 22, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 1, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)PHI
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Notified law enforcement and cooperated with its investigation
Offering a complimentary one-year membership of Experian IdentityWorks
Changes made: Enhancing our technical security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: Leak >90d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗

Indiana State AGMar 27 · first

Massachusetts State AGMar 27 · first

Nebraska State AGMar 27 · 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://nebraska.gov/ago/data-breach/documents/1556b63d-35eb-4bef-aa94-5288dba7dff4.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 27, 2025
Raw hash: 4b8ed772b20b49fb1b51ed766232b67c98e1ce135a516df544d4e001840bc91d

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHouston Housing Authority

Victim entityHouston Housing Authority

Incidentdiscovered Sep 22, 2024

Stated responseNotified law enforcement and cooperated with its investigation

ComplianceLeak >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancenebraska.gov