AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisconfigurationData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

Valley County, Idaho

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Severity

High

Discovered

Apr 6, 2021

Filed

Dec 10, 2021

To disclose

35 weeks

Affected

2,963state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Valley County, Idaho →

Valley County, Idaho notified the Idaho AG of a data event affecting 2,963 residents. A configuration issue with a third-party online public records portal caused documents (marriage licenses, death certificates, court records) to be accessible without proper redaction from Jan 2020 to Apr 2021. Data exposed included names, addresses, SSNs, driver's licenses, and financial account info. No evidence of misuse. Notices sent Dec 10, 2021; credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 461 days

discovery → filing · 35 weeks / 248 days

Jan 1, 2020

Begins

Apr 6, 2021

Discovered

Dec 10, 2021

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_384fc5b4399d4e692021-12-10Candidate

Name: Valley County, Idaho
norm: valley county idaho
Domain: co.valley.id.us

Name: Valley County, Idaho
norm: valley county idaho
Domain: co.valley.id.us
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Apr 6, 2021
Breach occurred: Jan 1, 2020 – Apr 6, 2021
Undetected for: 461 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 10, 2021
Affected individuals: 2,963state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Regulator citations: Notified Idaho Attorney General Consumer Protection Division

During the incident: Documents available on the online portal were taken down
Reviewed to determine what, if any, personal information may have been contained within the records
Undertook efforts to locate address information for those individuals
Providing notice once it was confident that it had the correct contact information
Working to implement additional safeguards and training to its employees
Providing access to credit monitoring services for one (1) year, through Experian
Changes made: Implementing additional safeguards and training to its employees
Reviewing and enhancing existing policies and procedures to reduce the likelihood of a similar future event
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 35 weeks(248 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Montana State AGDec 10 · first

Idaho State AGDec 10 · 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://ag.idaho.gov/content/uploads/2022/03/12-10-21-Valley-County-Idaho.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 10, 2021
Raw hash: f540e86a2e2d863908475754115f923e8b26bbefcc5d642778e4b01f1232fa25

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityValley County, Idaho

Victim entityValley County, Idaho

Incidentdiscovered Apr 6, 2021

Stated responseDocuments available on the online portal were taken down

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceag.idaho.gov