MalwareGovernmentGovernmentRansomwareCubaRansom DemandedData ExfiltratedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountHighContained

Automatic Funds Transfer Services, Inc

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Severity

High

Financial impact

$5.60M

Discovered

Feb 11, 2021

Filed

Feb 23, 2021

To disclose

12 days

Affected

14,877state residents only

Confidence

69%

Lakewood Water District reported a ransomware incident affecting its billing vendor, Automatic Funds Transfer Services (AFTS), in Washington. AFTS servers were encrypted between Feb 3-4, 2021. The District notified 14,877 customers on Feb 19, 2021. Data potentially exposed includes names, addresses, account numbers, and bank routing info. AFTS engaged LMG Security and FBI; ransom of $5.6M was refused.

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Washington clock✓ WA AG ≤30d12 days discovery → filing

⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 8 days

discovery → filing · 12 days

Feb 3, 2021

Begins

Feb 11, 2021

Discovered

Feb 23, 2021

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed14,877 affectedView incident

Name: Lakewood Water District
norm: lakewood water district
Domain: lakewoodwater.org

Name: Automatic Funds Transfer Services, Inc
norm: automatic funds transfer services
Domain: afts.com
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Feb 11, 2021
Breach occurred: Feb 3, 2021 – Feb 4, 2021
Undetected for: 8 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 19, 2021
Affected individuals: 14,877state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Data elements: NameFinancial account number
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle Unknowndexposure Unknownd
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 ChannelT1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: AFTS reported event to FBIAssigned to Dallas FBIAFTS will be reporting per requirements to other State and Federal agencies
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Sent notice to all 14,877 customers on February 19
No longer using AFTS for billing needs
AFTS took entire network offline
AFTS hired forensic Information Technology company
AFTS hired technology company to build new network
AFTS upgraded security systems on new network
AFTS implemented additional security measures
AFTS reported event to FBI
LMG Security engaged for ransomware response
Ransomware contained
Carbon Black end-point monitoring put in place
Recovery and rebuilding underway
Changes made: AFTS upgraded its security systems on new network
AFTS implemented additional security measures
Carbon Black end-point monitoring put in place
Recovery and rebuilding underway
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 days(12 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG ≤30d
Discovery-date grounding: AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

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/BreachM10407.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 23, 2021
Raw hash: 75e410b4dc30e278adc0be28fd76eb93e7bf8da25487d8f730dc95a3d5526ff9

Reporting entityLakewood Water District

Victim entityAutomatic Funds Transfer Services, Inc

Incidentdiscovered Feb 11, 2021

Stated responseSent notice to all 14,877 customers on February 19

ComplianceWA AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com