HackingGovernmentGovernmentStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedDownstream VictimsCredentialsLowContained

Sonoma County Department of Emergency Management

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 16, 2026

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

78%

Full breach record for Sonoma County Department of Emergency Management →

Sonoma County Department of Emergency Management notified community members of a cybersecurity incident affecting the CodeRED alert platform operated by a third-party vendor. The nationwide incident compromised passwords used by community members to access CodeRED accounts (previously the SoCoAlert system). County systems and networks were not involved. CodeRED reset affected passwords as a precaution.

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Incident timeline

Nov 26, 2025

Begins

Jan 16, 2026

Filed

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

Name: Sonoma County Department of Emergency Management
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Name: Sonoma County Department of Emergency Management
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Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Nov 26, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Credentials
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Third party: via CodeRED (operated by Crisis24)
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: CodeRED has already reset those passwords
Community members who created a SoCoAlert account with CodeRED are strongly encouraged to change that password on any other websites or services where it may have been reused
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-617155
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 16, 2026
Raw hash: bdbf3558195b9d54f8f755f9fd1da6bca9e80b43483570f7df877b546931ec59

Reporting entitySonoma County Department of Emergency Management

Victim entitySonoma County Department of Emergency Management

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responseCodeRED has already reset those passwords

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov