HackingGovernmentGovernmentVulnerability ExploitTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

Port of Seattle

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Severity

High

Discovered

Aug 6, 2018

Filed

Apr 26, 2019

To disclose

38 weeks

Affected

3,357state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Port of Seattle →2 incidents on file

Port of Seattle notified 3,357 employees and contractors of a security vulnerability in an externally hosted employee services website. The vulnerability potentially exposed names, SSNs, and driver's license numbers. Forensic investigation found no evidence of unauthorized access or data acquisition, but the Port provided complimentary credit monitoring as a precaution.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 38 weeks / 263 days

Aug 6, 2018

Discovered

Apr 26, 2019

Filed

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_aa49c333fbf54ea72019-04-26Verified
Montana State AGbd_bcce71b0a951d2b32019-04-26Verified

Name: Port of Seattle
norm: port of seattle

Name: Port of Seattle
norm: port of seattle
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Aug 6, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,357state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberDriver's licence number
WA-stated cause: Unauthorized Access
WA-stated duration: lifecycle Unknowndexposure Unknownd
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Worked with the vendor that created the website to ensure that the vulnerability was fixed
Worked with a leading cybersecurity forensic firm to investigate if there had been any misuse of the vulnerability
Offering you a complimentary one-year membership in Experian’s ® IdentityWorksSM Credit 3B
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 38 weeks(263 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGApr 26 · first

Montana State AGApr 26 · first

Washington State AGApr 26 · 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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM10628.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 26, 2019
Raw hash: 5dcd1e46ce7ebbd77baf07e581cfec7f7759a0b534eb1c95a51497510ca0be6f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPort of Seattle

Victim entityPort of Seattle

Incidentdiscovered Aug 6, 2018

Stated responseWorked with the vendor that created the website to ensure that the vulnerability was fixed

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com