MisuseGovernmentGovernmentKnowledge AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)PIIMediumResolved

Area Agency on Aging and Disabilities of Southwest Washington

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 12, 2019

Filed

Apr 22, 2019

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

7,000state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Area Agency on Aging and Disabilities of Southwest Washington →

Area Agency on Aging and Disabilities of Southwest Washington (AAADSW) reported a breach where a former employee emailed 7,000 provider authorization records containing client names and Medicaid Provider One IDs to a personal account on Jan 15, 2019. Discovered March 12, 2019, AAADSW deleted the file, obtained an attestation, notified clients in May 2019, and filed reports with OCR and the WA AG.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 56 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 41 days

Jan 15, 2019

Begins

Mar 12, 2019

Discovered

Apr 22, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

5 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

HHS OCRbd_3792dfd757b88d122019-04-22Verified

Name: Area Agency on Aging and Disabilities of Southwest Washington
norm: area agency on aging and disabilities of southwest washington

Name: Area Agency on Aging and Disabilities of Southwest Washington
norm: area agency on aging and disabilities of southwest washington
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Mar 12, 2019
Breach occurred: Jan 15, 2019
Undetected for: 56 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 1, 2019
Affected individuals: 7,000state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)PII
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: InternalSecondary
Regulator citations: Report filed with the Office of Civil Rights on 4/22/19Report filed with the WA State Attorney General’s Office on 04/22/19
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Immediate removal/denial of access to work systems at the time the former employee left AAADSW
Information Technology and Executive Management witness and confirm the deletion of the report from the former employee’s home computer
The former employee signed an attestation stating the report was not shared with any other persons or entities
Additional training for existing staff regarding the importance of the protection of PHI during team meetings in April 2019
Clients will be notified by letter beginning May 1st, 2019
Press release will be submitted on or around May 1st, 2019
Report filed with the Office of Civil Rights on 4/22/19
Report filed with the WA State Attorney General’s Office on 04/22/19
Changes made: Additional training for existing staff regarding the importance of the protection of PHI during team meetings in April 2019
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(41 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCRApr 22 · first

Washington State AGApr 22 · 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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM10625.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 22, 2019
Raw hash: 45639e0b3fad08157faa98110c0f9cdec4fa67c6f9268ccb49ab1a42221541af

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityArea Agency on Aging and Disabilities of Southwest Washington

Victim entityArea Agency on Aging and Disabilities of Southwest Washington

Incidentdiscovered Mar 12, 2019

Stated responseImmediate removal/denial of access to work systems at the time the former employee left AAADSW

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com