HackingGovernmentGovernmentStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Butler County, PA

bd_815a1852a58d08e0 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Oct 2, 2023

Filed

Feb 21, 2024

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Butler County, PA →

CorrectionPublished Oct 10, 2026

The Montana Department of Justice register lists this notice on 2023-02-21. The notice letter is dated February 21, 2024, so we publish 2024-02-21 as the date it was filed.

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Butler County (PA) notified individuals of a data security incident discovered on October 2, 2023, involving unauthorized access to PII. The County engaged forensic investigators, cooperated with federal law enforcement, and offered 12 months of Experian credit monitoring. No specific count of affected individuals was provided in this notice.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 142 days

Oct 2, 2023

Begins

Oct 2, 2023

Discovered

Feb 21, 2024

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_668558485e205ba82024-02-21Candidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_eef7631dda33db112024-02-26 · +5dVerified

Name: Butler County, PA
norm: butler county
Domain: pa-butlercounty.civicplus.com

Name: Butler County, PA
norm: butler county
Domain: pa-butlercounty.civicplus.com
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Oct 2, 2023
Breach occurred: Oct 2, 2023
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 22, 2024
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified federal law enforcementCooperating with federal law enforcement’s investigation
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Worked with a nationally recognized digital forensics team to secure our network and investigate the scope of the incident
Notified the Butler County District Attorney and continue to cooperate with federal law enforcement’s investigation
Posted notice of this incident on the County website
Notified major statewide media
Deployed security tools to enhance detection and accelerate response to cyber incidents
Actively monitoring our network using end point detection tools to help ensure containment
Conducted enterprise-wide password reset
Strengthening network security
Changes made: Deployed security tools to enhance detection and accelerate response to cyber incidents
Actively monitoring our network using end point detection tools to help ensure containment
Conducted enterprise-wide password reset
Strengthening network security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(142 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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Indiana State AGFeb 21 · first

Montana State AGFeb 21 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Feb 21 (IN), last Feb 26 (NH) — a 5-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-1118.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 21, 2024
Raw hash: 1b3e91ee142cd51a24725fa16ec4d8e845c51d9edbd73435e7b7f932149bb143

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityButler County, PA

Victim entityButler County, PA

Incidentdiscovered Oct 2, 2023

Stated responseWorked with a nationally recognized digital forensics team to secure our network and investigate the scope of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov