HackingGovernmentGovernmentStolen CredentialsTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

Lincoln County, Washington

bd_da5df5943c391112 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 19, 2020

Filed

Jan 7, 2021

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Lincoln County, Washington notified residents of unauthorized network access between Nov 13-19, 2020. Personal information including names, addresses, and government IDs was potentially accessed. The County engaged forensic specialists and offered 12 months of credit monitoring via Experian. Investigation was ongoing at the time of notification.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 6 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 49 days

Nov 13, 2020

Begins

Nov 19, 2020

Discovered

Jan 7, 2021

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Lincoln County, Washington
norm: lincoln county

Name: Lincoln County, Washington
norm: lincoln county
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Nov 19, 2020
Breach occurred: Nov 13, 2020 – Nov 19, 2020
Undetected for: 6 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 7, 2021
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Took portions of the network offline
Commenced an investigation
Working with computer forensic specialists
Secured the services of Experian to provide you with credit monitoring and identity restoration services
Changes made: Continue to evaluate ways to improve our existing protections to secure the information within our network
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(49 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/limcSAmp.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 7, 2021
Raw hash: 1ab9b46d5631a95cace25b93d008b32c24836bd5b8fca9dc23e67175d40c1b52

Reporting entityLincoln County, Washington

Victim entityLincoln County, Washington

Incidentdiscovered Nov 19, 2020

Stated responseTook portions of the network offline

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov