AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisconfigurationTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

City of Roanoke, Virginia

bd_55d26c39e577bc0b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 4, 2023

Filed

Aug 4, 2023

To disclose

13 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

67%

City of Roanoke, Virginia notified the NH AG of a misconfiguration vulnerability on a single server housing employee pension information. Discovered May 4, 2023, during a penetration test. No evidence of unauthorized access or data theft. 2 NH residents potentially impacted. Credit monitoring offered via Experian.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 13 weeks / 92 days

May 4, 2023

Discovered

Aug 4, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+2 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2 affectedView incident

Name: City of Roanoke, Virginia
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Name: City of Roanoke, Virginia
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Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: May 4, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 31, 2023
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Regulator citations: Notified the Virginia State Police’s Fusion Intelligence Center

During the incident: Engaged leading outside cybersecurity experts to confirm that the scope of this vulnerability was limited to a single Roanoke server
Remedied the configuration issue immediately
Conducted an extensive review of all files potentially exposed by the vulnerability
Notified the Virginia State Police’s Fusion Intelligence Center
Arranged to provide potentially impacted individuals with credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Experian at no cost
Changes made: Remedied the configuration issue
Continuing to evaluate additional actions to strengthen network security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 weeks(92 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/city-roanoke-virginia-20230804.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 4, 2023
Raw hash: 53f93d1c5193fbd9348ffd0beb640e776a70cb80929757420796813576eb6092

Reporting entityCity of Roanoke, Virginia

Victim entityCity of Roanoke, Virginia

Incidentdiscovered May 4, 2023

Stated responseEngaged leading outside cybersecurity experts to confirm that the scope of this vulnerability was limited to a single Roanoke server

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov