Social EngineeringGovernmentGovernmentPhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Latah County

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 25, 2020

Filed

Aug 7, 2020

To disclose

19 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Latah County →2 incidents on file

Latah County, Idaho notified individuals of unauthorized access to employee email accounts between March 25-27, 2020. The incident involved phishing leading to credential compromise and email collection. Affected data included personal information. The County engaged forensic investigators, reset credentials, implemented MFA, and provided 12 months of credit monitoring via TransUnion.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 19 weeks / 135 days

Mar 25, 2020

Begins

Mar 25, 2020

Discovered

Aug 7, 2020

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Latah County
norm: latah county

Name: Latah County
norm: latah county
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Mar 25, 2020
Breach occurred: Mar 25, 2020 – Mar 27, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 7, 2020
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Changed those users’ access credentials
Launched an investigation
Conducted with the assistance of a third-party forensic investigator
Implemented multifactor authentication
Signed employees out of their email accounts
Warned all employees of the malicious email
Arranged to have TransUnion protect your identity for 12 months at no cost
Changes made: Implemented multifactor authentication
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 19 weeks(135 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Latah-County-Idaho-Consumer-ltr.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 7, 2020
Raw hash: 9ab0fba54be424a453345fe5ba1bcec77d2da4d58258b029c7ba0e3e40192a02

Reporting entityLatah County

Victim entityLatah County

Incidentdiscovered Mar 25, 2020

Stated responseChanged those users’ access credentials

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov