DisclosureLens
HackingGovernmentGovernmentStolen CredentialsTargetedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Wooster-Ashland Regional Council of Government

bd_f55d1fe33db00315 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 28, 2017

Filed

Aug 9, 2017

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

9state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Wooster-Ashland Regional Council of Government →

Wooster-Ashland Regional Council of Governments (WARCOG) notified individuals of a cyber attack discovered on June 28, 2017, where an unknown third party accessed police incident report files containing PII (names, addresses, SSNs, driver's licenses) of residents from Wooster, Ashland, and Orrville, OH, over the last ten years. FBI and local law enforcement are investigating. WARCOG engaged forensic firms and provided one year of credit monitoring.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 42 days

Jun 28, 2017

Discovered

Aug 9, 2017

Filed

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGAug 9 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 9 (NH), last Aug 14 (MA) — a 5-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.