AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD)

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 22, 2019

Filed

Aug 30, 2019

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) →

Arizona Game and Fish Department notified Montana residents that an employee inadvertently emailed a spreadsheet containing names and Social Security numbers to 28 unintended recipients on July 22, 2019. The department investigated, confirmed deletion by recipients, and offered one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 39 days

Jul 22, 2019

Begins

Jul 22, 2019

Discovered

Aug 30, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2 affectedView incident

Name: Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD)
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Name: Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD)
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Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Jul 22, 2019
Breach occurred: Jul 22, 2019
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 22, 2019
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1535 Unused/Unknown Cloud Storage
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Committed a prompt and thorough investigation
Immediately emailed the recipients and requested they delete the email containing the spreadsheet and not disclose the spreadsheet to anyone
Followed up this email with a telephone call to the recipients
Worked very closely with external data privacy professionals
Changes made: Offering a complimentary one-year membership of Experian IdentityWorksSM Credit 3B
Continually evaluate and modify practices to enhance the security and privacy of personal information
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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-10.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 30, 2019
Raw hash: 5bfd777741d7210bb3ac4af37ffe6ccf5b02572ffbbb38bd8c8da5fe12561552

Reporting entityArizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD)

Victim entityArizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD)

Incidentdiscovered Jul 22, 2019

Stated responseCommitted a prompt and thorough investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov