MalwareManufacturingManufacturingRansomwareData ExfiltratedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDPHIPIIMediumContained

North Pacific Paper Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 29, 2022

Filed

Oct 17, 2022

To disclose

18 days

Affected

972state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for North Pacific Paper Company →

North Pacific Paper Company reported a ransomware cyberattack on September 28, 2022, discovered on September 29, 2022. The incident affected 972 Washington residents (employees/dependents), exposing names, birthdates, driver's license numbers, SSNs, and medical information. The company engaged external experts, deployed enhanced monitoring, and provided one year of LifeLock credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Washington clock✓ WA AG ≤30d18 days discovery → filing

⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 18 days

Sep 28, 2022

Begins

Sep 29, 2022

Discovered

Oct 17, 2022

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_7890c6931c4e56562022-10-18 · +1dVerified

Name: North Pacific Paper Company
norm: north pacific paper

Name: North Pacific Paper Company
norm: north pacific paper
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Sep 29, 2022
Breach occurred: Sep 28, 2022
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 1, 2022
Affected individuals: 972state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PII
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberDriver's licence numberDate of birthMedical information
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 1-99dexposure 0d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Engaging external experts to address the incident
Deploying enhanced 24x7 monitoring and detection technologies to its network environment
Changes made: Providing one year of credit monitoring to affected employees
Enrolling you and your dependents in LifeLock for one year at no cost
Implementing additional safeguards to ensure information in its control is appropriately protected
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 days(18 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG ≤30d
Discovery-date grounding: AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Washington State AGOct 17 · first · this page

Montana State AG+1d

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/BreachA15688.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 17, 2022
Raw hash: 830b034329c05331e0b6fd6829a412566114cdc265dfbcc124ac9c7eb978bfd7

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNorth Pacific Paper Company

Victim entityNorth Pacific Paper Company

Incidentdiscovered Sep 29, 2022

Stated responseEngaging external experts to address the incident

ComplianceWA AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com