PhysicalGovernmentGovernmentTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Housing Authority of the City of Seattle

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Severity

High

Discovered

Mar 17, 2017

Filed

Apr 25, 2017

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

1,500state residents only

Confidence

70%

Full breach record for Housing Authority of the City of Seattle →3 incidents on file

Seattle Housing Authority reported the theft of two laptops containing client names, addresses, and SSNs from a burglarized building housing housing inspectors. 1,500 Washington residents were affected. SHA notified law enforcement, HUD, and affected individuals, offering credit monitoring and encrypting devices.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 39 days

Mar 17, 2017

Discovered

Apr 25, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,500 affectedView incident

Name: Housing Authority of the City of Seattle
norm: housing authority of the city of seattle

Name: Housing Authority of the City of Seattle
norm: housing authority of the city of seattle
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Mar 17, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 25, 2017
Affected individuals: 1,500state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
WA-stated cause: Theft or Mistake
WA-stated duration: lifecycle Unknowndexposure Unknownd
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the US Department of Housing and Urban Development

During the incident: Contacted law enforcement and cooperating with their investigation
Notified the US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Notified all program participants who may be affected
Offering 12 months of credit monitoring and identity restoration to impacted individuals through Equifax at no cost
Changes made: Revised forms to exclude the use of Social Security numbers
Revised policies to help prevent the inadvertent disclosure of personal information
Encrypted all SHA laptops so the data is accessible to authorized SHA staff only
Retraining staff on protection of personal information
Updating policies and procedures regarding the collection of sensitive client information
Implementing additional training and safeguards
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(39 days from discovery to filing)
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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM9696.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 25, 2017
Raw hash: 492dac9e5a2cde7f2f0c5a85b2e1dbfcaed57e9781b9aacd2797ed5694363381

Reporting entityHousing Authority of the City of Seattle

Victim entityHousing Authority of the City of Seattle

Incidentdiscovered Mar 17, 2017

Stated responseContacted law enforcement and cooperating with their investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com