HackingGovernmentGovernmentVulnerability ExploitTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Port of Seattle

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 26, 2019

To disclose

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Affected · nationwide

3,4901 in this filing

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Port of Seattle →2 incidents on file

Port of Seattle notified Montana residents of a security vulnerability in an externally hosted employee services website. The vulnerability potentially exposed names, SSNs, and driver's license numbers of 3,490 employees and contractors. Forensic investigation found no evidence of unauthorized access. The Port fixed the vulnerability and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Apr 26, 2019

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_5e76834050609e0d2019-04-26Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_aa49c333fbf54ea72019-04-26Verified

Name: Port of Seattle
norm: port of seattle

Name: Port of Seattle
norm: port of seattle
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 6, 2019
Affected individuals: 3,490state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Worked with the vendor that created the website to ensure that the vulnerability was fixed
Worked with a leading cybersecurity forensic firm to investigate if there had been any misuse of the vulnerability
Offering you a complimentary one-year membership in Experian’s® Identity WorksTM Credit 3B
Changes made: Worked with the vendor that created the website to ensure that the vulnerability was fixed
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.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Washington State AGApr 26 · first

Massachusetts State AGApr 26 · first

Montana State AGApr 26 · 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/CON-Pages-from-2019-05-06-POS-MT-AG-update.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 26, 2019
Raw hash: 67c64d3281a1705b505bc80f30c33072373591d479aa81a811e544342c805044

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPort of Seattle

Victim entityPort of Seattle

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseWorked with the vendor that created the website to ensure that the vulnerability was fixed

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov