AccidentalOtherMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumContained

Defenders of Wildlife

bd_d11f503433ced5e1 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 14, 2021

Filed

Sep 16, 2021

To disclose

2 days

Affected

4state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Defenders of Wildlife →

Defenders of Wildlife notified employees that on September 14, 2021, an HR employee mistakenly emailed a file containing all 2019 W-2 forms (including names, SSNs, addresses, earnings) to a former employee. The incident was discovered and contained on the same day. The organization triggered its Data Incident Response Plan, secured deletion of the email, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 2 days

Sep 14, 2021

Begins

Sep 14, 2021

Discovered

Sep 16, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4 affectedView incident

Name: Defenders of Wildlife
norm: defenders of wildlife
Domain: defenders.org

Name: Defenders of Wildlife
norm: defenders of wildlife
Domain: defenders.org
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Sep 14, 2021
Breach occurred: Sep 14, 2021
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 15, 2021
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Triggered the Data Incident Response Plan procedures maintained by Defenders of Wildlife Compliance Team
Requested that the recipient of the data delete the file from her e-mail “Inbox” and "Deleted Items" folder
Received confirmation this was done by the recipient
Received confirmation from the Operations Manager of the recipient’s employer that the e-mail had been deleted from their organization’s system and is not recoverable
Providing credit monitoring services from AllClear ID for 24 months
Changes made: Taking immediate steps to minimize the risk to each of us and to help prevent incidents of this kind in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 2 days(2 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/notificationLetter-115.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 16, 2021
Raw hash: f5fc0ea45cdde4fc95911e20b4782678f6d3b1d6a8bee79179b59c9897c2505c

Reporting entityDefenders of Wildlife

Victim entityDefenders of Wildlife

Incidentdiscovered Sep 14, 2021

Stated responseTriggered the Data Incident Response Plan procedures maintained by Defenders of Wildlife Compliance Team

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov