HackingGovernmentGovernmentStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

City of Clarksburg, West Virginia

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 12, 2022

Filed

Dec 8, 2022

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for City of Clarksburg, West Virginia →

The City of Clarksburg, WV, notified individuals of a cyber incident on Oct 12, 2022, where an unauthorized user accessed a single business email account. Personal info including names, SSNs, driver's license numbers, and addresses may have been exposed. The FBI was notified, and affected individuals were offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 57 days

Oct 12, 2022

Begins

Oct 12, 2022

Discovered

Dec 8, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

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

Indiana State AGbd_dc09feca1b02be982022-12-08Verified

Name: City of Clarksburg, West Virginia
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Name: City of Clarksburg, West Virginia
norm: city of clarksburg west virginia
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Oct 12, 2022
Breach occurred: Oct 12, 2022
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 8, 2022
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Reported to the FBI Cyber Crimes Division
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Engaged outside cybersecurity experts
Secured systems against unauthorized access
Reported to the FBI Cyber Crimes Division
Offered complimentary access to Experian IdentityWorks for 12 months
Changes made: Continuing to evaluate additional actions to strengthen security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(57 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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Indiana State AGDec 8 · first

Montana State AGDec 8 · 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-Notification-Letter-760.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 8, 2022
Raw hash: cad00f1f9f6e5af9d91efba8a4d62958224de8063ecc9b96dadb5956c7230467

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCity of Clarksburg, West Virginia

Victim entityCity of Clarksburg, West Virginia

Incidentdiscovered Oct 12, 2022

Stated responseEngaged outside cybersecurity experts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov