PhysicalGovernmentGovernmentTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Housing Authority of the City of Seattle

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 7, 2019

Filed

Feb 22, 2019

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected · nationwide

720687 in this filing

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Housing Authority of the City of Seattle →3 incidents on file

Supplemental notice from Seattle Housing Authority regarding the theft of a laptop containing resident names, bank account numbers, and routing numbers. Incident discovered Jan 7, 2019. 687 Washington residents notified. Law enforcement contacted. Kroll identity monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 46 days

Jan 7, 2019

Begins

Jan 7, 2019

Discovered

Feb 22, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed720 affectedView incident

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: Housing Authority of the City of Seattle
norm: housing authority of the city of seattle
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Jan 7, 2019
Breach occurred: Jan 7, 2019
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 28, 2019
Affected individuals: 720state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Data elements: NameFinancial account number
WA-stated cause: Theft or Mistake
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 0dexposure 0d
WA-stated discovery: Found while ongoingContained same day
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the Attorney GeneralCooperating with police investigation

During the incident: Contacted law enforcement
Launched an investigation
Identified the individuals affected
Identified the types of information affected
Mailed written notice to potentially affected individuals
Partnered with Kroll to offer one year of free identity monitoring services
Changes made: Re-secured the facility
Working to implement additional safeguards to protect the security of its facilities and information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(46 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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM10616.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 22, 2019
Raw hash: fd6c063ecd86d8aabd2a8b8866c41a6d21a5662b52840887ac2c6e23d29131c2

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityHousing Authority of the City of Seattle

Incidentdiscovered Jan 7, 2019

Stated responseContacted law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com