MalwareGovernmentGovernmentRansomwareData EncryptedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighContained

Municipal Gas Utility of the City of Cedar Falls, Iowa

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Severity

High

Discovered

Jun 19, 2024

Filed

Feb 25, 2025

To disclose

36 weeks

Affected

3,534state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Municipal Gas Utility of the City of Cedar Falls, Iowa →

The City of Cedar Falls, Iowa, notified the Iowa Attorney General of a ransomware incident detected on June 19, 2024. The breach potentially affected the personal information of 3,534 Iowa residents, including names, SSNs, driver's license numbers, and health information. The City restored its network from backups and offered credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Iowa clock✓ IA AG ≤5 bday36 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 36 weeks / 251 days

Jun 19, 2024

Begins

Jun 19, 2024

Discovered

Feb 25, 2025

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Maryland State AGbd_b66781538558a8e42025-02-25Verified
Nebraska State AGbd_22f75bb6dce61de12025-02-19 · +6dVerified

Name: Municipal Gas Utility of the City of Cedar Falls, Iowa
norm: municipal gas utility of the city of cedar falls iowa

Name: Municipal Gas Utility of the City of Cedar Falls, Iowa
norm: municipal gas utility of the city of cedar falls iowa
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Jun 19, 2024
Breach occurred: Jun 19, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 19, 2025
Affected individuals: 3,534state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Engaged legal counsel and cybersecurity professionals to conduct a forensic investigation
Securely restored its network from backups
Mailed individual notification letters
Offered complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services
Changes made: Changed all passwords and updated its password policy
Implemented an automated patching tool
Updated its firewall configurations
Conducted an external penetration test
Conducted an external vulnerability scan
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 36 weeks(251 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: IA AG ≤5 bday
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Nebraska State AGFeb 19 · first

Maryland State AG+6d

Iowa State AG+6d · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 19 (NE), last Feb 25 (IA) — a 6-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://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/media/cms/2252025__Cedar_Falls_Iowa_999D2C399CF0C.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 25, 2025
Raw hash: 7ca1eab48d020baf6c831f7f18530e268c8f1bda135be0660748aae2e2a9824b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMunicipal Gas Utility of the City of Cedar Falls, Iowa

Victim entityMunicipal Gas Utility of the City of Cedar Falls, Iowa

Incidentdiscovered Jun 19, 2024

Stated responseEngaged legal counsel and cybersecurity professionals to conduct a forensic investigation

ComplianceIA AG ≤5 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.iowaattorneygeneral.gov