PhysicalGovernmentGovernmentTheftCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedAuthenticationCredentialsEducationFinancial accountIdentity (basic)Government IDPHIHealth (basic)MediumActive

Washington Department of Labor & Industries

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 28, 2022

Filed

Apr 28, 2022

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Washington Department of Labor & Industries →2 incidents on file

Washington Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) reported a burglary at its Tukwila regional office on March 28, 2022, resulting in the theft of hard drives containing sensitive PII, PHI, and credentials. The number of affected individuals is unknown. L&I notified law enforcement, reset employee passwords, and offered credit monitoring via a public notice on April 29, 2022.

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Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d4 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 31 days

Mar 28, 2022

Begins

Mar 28, 2022

Discovered

Apr 28, 2022

Filed

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

Name: Washington Department of Labor & Industries
norm: washington department of labor

Name: Washington Department of Labor & Industries
norm: washington department of labor
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Mar 28, 2022
Breach occurred: Mar 28, 2022
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 29, 2022
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountCredentialsPHI
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberDriver's licence numberFinancial account numberDate of birthStudent ID numberMilitary ID numberPassport numberHealth insurance IDMedical informationUsername + password
WA-stated cause: Theft or Mistake
WA-stated duration: lifecycle Unknowndexposure Unknownd
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Washington State Office of Attorney General

During the incident: Contacted local law enforcement (Tukwila Police Department)
Required all L&I employees to change their passwords
Published a notice on their website
Issued a press release to statewide media
Set up a call center for individuals to contact for more information
Offered complimentary credit monitoring
Brought on a Special Assistant Attorney General with expertise in data security incidents
Changes made: Reviewing physical and information security at all L&I offices
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(31 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >30d
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachA9234.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 28, 2022
Raw hash: 566135d3062e914509708261e80a9ba16a0a45aae9a2fd0935ff7d3f876baf27

Reporting entityWashington Department of Labor & Industries

Victim entityWashington Department of Labor & Industries

Incidentdiscovered Mar 28, 2022

Stated responseContacted local law enforcement (Tukwila Police Department)

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com