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Washington Initiative for Supported Employment

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 15, 2018

Filed

Nov 14, 2018

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

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Washington Initiative for Supported Employment (WISE) notified individuals on November 13, 2018, that a moving crate containing hard-copy tax documents (W-4/1099 forms) was lost during an office relocation in September 2018. The documents contained names, addresses, SSNs/TINs, and compensation info. WISE discovered the loss on October 15, 2018, and is offering one year of Experian IdentityWorks. The incident status is active as documents remain missing.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 37 days

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Sep 8, 2018

Begins

Oct 15, 2018

Discovered

Nov 14, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

15 wks faster

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

Name: Washington Initiative for Supported Employment
norm: washington initiative for supported employment

Name: Washington Initiative for Supported Employment
norm: washington initiative for supported employment
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 15, 2018
Breach occurred: Sep 8, 2018 – Oct 15, 2018
Undetected for: 37 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 13, 2018
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium

During the incident: Continuing efforts to search for the missing crate and documents
Offering a complimentary one-year membership in Experian IdentityWorks Premium
Changes made: Modifying internal procedures to back-up and destroy all hard-copy files
Saving tax-related documents only in electronic form on computers
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(30 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/Washington-Initiative-for-Supported-Employment.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 14, 2018
Raw hash: d8c074c17d74cf979fe51c8af2384a5885769f2178fb0831ea4c632ce98a0d2e

Reporting entityWashington Initiative for Supported Employment

Victim entityWashington Initiative for Supported Employment

Incidentdiscovered Oct 15, 2018

Stated responseContinuing efforts to search for the missing crate and documents

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov