AccidentalManufacturingManufacturingMisconfigurationEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumContained

Pratt & Whitney Engine Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 16, 2023

Filed

Nov 16, 2023

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Pratt & Whitney Engine Services →

Pratt & Whitney Engine Services notified Vermont AG of a data breach involving improper folder permissions on file servers. Internal employees without authorization accessed personal data including SSNs, DOBs, and health information. The company revised permissions and offered 2 years of credit monitoring.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday4 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 31 days

Oct 16, 2023

Discovered

Nov 16, 2023

Filed

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

Name: Pratt & Whitney Engine Services
norm: pratt whitney engine

Name: Pratt & Whitney Engine Services
norm: pratt whitney engine
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Oct 16, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 16, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Established an Incident Response Team
Conducted a thorough review of the incident
Implemented additional security measures
Revised server folder permissions
Offering comprehensive credit monitoring services for two years at no expense
Changes made: Revised server folder permissions
Implemented additional security measures designed to prevent a recurrence
Working with digital technology teams to ensure folders are properly classified
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(31 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >14 bday
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-11-16-pratt-whitney-engine-services-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 16, 2023
Raw hash: dcf7e6cf00c30baf91be82443f5cf9748b3ef17edb212a842c1cb1bc2e8c1391

Reporting entityPratt & Whitney Engine Services

Victim entityPratt & Whitney Engine Services

Incidentdiscovered Oct 16, 2023

Stated responseEstablished an Incident Response Team

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov