AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

City of Roanoke

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 31, 2023

Filed

Jul 31, 2023

To disclose

≤1 day

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for City of Roanoke →4 incidents on file

The City of Roanoke notified consumers of a data breach involving a server with a configuration issue that may have allowed unauthorized access to personal information, including names, Social Security numbers, and addresses. No evidence of data theft was found. The City engaged cybersecurity experts, remedied the issue, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring through Experian.

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Vermont clock✓ VT AG ≤14 bday≤1 day discovery → filing

⚠ notification dateThe stored discovery date equals the NOTIFICATION date, collapsing the clock to ~zero. This UNDERSTATES the delay and can mask a real violation.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · ≤1 day / 0 days

Jul 31, 2023

Discovered

Jul 31, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

11 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_27a4dfc5ac74579b2023-07-31Verified

Name: City of Roanoke
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Name: City of Roanoke
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Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Jul 31, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 31, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Virginia State Police’s Fusion Intelligence Center

During the incident: Engaged leading outside cybersecurity experts to confirm that the scope of this vulnerability was limited to a single Roanoke server
Notified the Virginia State Police’s Fusion Intelligence Center of this incident
Arranged for free credit monitoring through Experian
Changes made: Remedied the configuration issue immediately
Continuing to evaluate additional actions to strengthen network security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: ≤1 day(0 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG ≤14 bday
Discovery-date grounding: notification dateThe stored discovery date equals the NOTIFICATION date, collapsing the clock to ~zero. This UNDERSTATES the delay and can mask a real violation.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Indiana State AGJul 31 · first

Vermont State AGJul 31 · first · this page

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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-07-31-city-roanoke-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 31, 2023
Raw hash: 27c0576bbbcb1c883f75129cbe370534ee5f248016b3f7354b23a12122d6cebe

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCity of Roanoke

Victim entityCity of Roanoke

Incidentdiscovered Jul 31, 2023

Stated responseEngaged leading outside cybersecurity experts to confirm that the scope of this vulnerability was limited to a single Roanoke server

ComplianceVT AG ≤14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov