DisclosureLens
HackingGovernmentGovernmentStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

The City of Fort Lauderdale

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 20, 2020

Filed

May 1, 2020

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for The City of Fort Lauderdale2 incidents on file

The City of Fort Lauderdale notified individuals of a data event involving its vendor, PaperlessPay Corporation. An unknown actor gained access to the vendor's database on Feb 19, 2020, after DHS alerted the vendor to dark web sales of access. The City learned of the event on March 20, 2020. Affected data included names, addresses, and SSNs. The City launched an investigation and offered credit monitoring.

Incident timeline

undetected · 30 days
discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 42 days

Feb 19, 2020

Begins

Mar 20, 2020

Discovered

May 1, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Indiana State AGMay 1 · first
Montana State AGMay 1 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing May 1 (IN), last May 8 (NH) — a 7-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.