PhysicalTechnologyInformationTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

Pioneer News Group of Seattle, Washington

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 12, 2016

Filed

Apr 12, 2016

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

210state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Pioneer News Group of Seattle, Washington →

Pioneer News Group notified individuals of a data security incident on March 12, 2016, when a company-issued laptop containing employee PII (names, addresses, DOBs, SSNs) was stolen from an employee's car. The company reported the theft to the Seattle Police Department, disabled remote network access, and provided 12 months of credit monitoring and identity restoration services.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 31 days

Mar 12, 2016

Begins

Mar 12, 2016

Discovered

Apr 12, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

14 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed210 affectedView incident

Name: Pioneer News Group of Seattle, Washington
norm: pioneer news group of seattle washington

Name: Pioneer News Group of Seattle, Washington
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Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Mar 12, 2016
Breach occurred: Mar 12, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 12, 2016
Affected individuals: 210state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Seattle Police Department

During the incident: Filed a report with the Seattle Police Department
Took steps to ensure that the laptop could not remotely access our network
Providing credit monitoring and identity restoration services for 12 months
Changes made: Considering measures to make it more difficult for similar incidents to occur in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(31 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/Pioneer-News-Group.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 12, 2016
Raw hash: af1381c96fdf683ffd0733f9cd9687c48fe85ab8409534fed98bdcd1d975a2f8

Reporting entityPioneer News Group of Seattle, Washington

Victim entityPioneer News Group of Seattle, Washington

Incidentdiscovered Mar 12, 2016

Stated responseFiled a report with the Seattle Police Department

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov