AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryGovernment IDPIIMediumActive

Teton County

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 5, 2022

Filed

Mar 3, 2022

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Teton County →2 incidents on file

Teton County, Idaho, notified the Idaho Attorney General of a data breach involving a public records search portal. A configuration issue allowed unauthorized access to personal information, including Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers, for Idaho residents. The incident occurred between May 7, 2017, and January 11, 2022. The County engaged legal counsel and a forensic firm to investigate the scope and mitigate harm.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1704 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 57 days

May 7, 2017

Begins

Jan 5, 2022

Discovered

Mar 3, 2022

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_01d42fb64e32fdf02022-03-24 · +21dVerified by operator
Idaho State AGbd_2a8942294ca6026f2022-03-24 · +21dVerified by operator

Name: Teton County
norm: teton county
Domain: co.teton.id.us

Name: Teton County
norm: teton county
Domain: co.teton.id.us
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Jan 5, 2022
Breach occurred: May 7, 2017 – Jan 11, 2022
Undetected for: 1,704 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 4, 2022
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Regulator citations: Notified the Idaho Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) on January 5, 2022Providing weekly updates to the CISONotifying the Idaho Office of Risk Management, ITS Chief Information Officer, ITS CISO, and Attorney General
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Engaged legal counsel with an expertise in cybersecurity
Hired a nationally-recognized cyber security and digital forensics firm to assist with the investigation
Working very closely with its cyber teams to investigate the scope of the incident, and mitigate any resulting harm
Changes made: Providing weekly updates to the Idaho CISO
Reviewing potentially affected data to determine what information was involved and who may have been affected
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(57 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 2 states

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Idaho State AGMar 3 · first · this page

Montana State AG+21d

Idaho State AG+21d

Pattern: first filing Mar 3 (ID), last Mar 24 (ID) — a 21-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://ag.idaho.gov/content/uploads/2022/03/03-03-22-Teton-County.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 3, 2022
Raw hash: 26735a5f2e267f5bbc09434d9f37de7b07811bb7152dedbe920e05ced3c3d2e9

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTeton County

Victim entityTeton County

Incidentdiscovered Jan 5, 2022

Stated responseEngaged legal counsel with an expertise in cybersecurity

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceag.idaho.gov