AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisconfigurationDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

St. Lucie County's Drug Screening Lab

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 28, 2021

Filed

Jan 20, 2022

To disclose

23 days

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for St. Lucie County's Drug Screening Lab →

St. Lucie County's Drug Screening Lab disclosed a data security incident caused by a web portal misconfiguration. Unauthorized users could access personal information (including SSNs and financial data) between June 2, 2017, and October 13, 2021. The misconfiguration was corrected and an investigation launched; the incident was discovered on December 28, 2021. Affected individuals were offered one year of Equifax credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1670 days

discovery → filing · 23 days

Jun 2, 2017

Begins

Dec 28, 2021

Discovered

Jan 20, 2022

Filed

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_6def57cd12ec076b2022-01-20Verified
Maine State AGbd_8cfabb45ffd3070c2022-01-21 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_902e55d1a8bfafb12022-01-21 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_6e52bfaad72d20ba2022-01-25 · +5dVerified

Name: St. Lucie County's Drug Screening Lab
norm: st lucie county s drug screening lab

Name: St. Lucie County's Drug Screening Lab
norm: st lucie county s drug screening lab
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Dec 28, 2021
Breach occurred: Jun 2, 2017 – Oct 13, 2021
Undetected for: 1,670 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

During the incident: Corrected the misconfiguration
Launched an investigation in consultation with outside cybersecurity professionals
Offering a complimentary one-year membership in Equifax® Credit WatchTM Gold
Changes made: Corrected the misconfiguration
Taken necessary steps to prevent this from happening again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 23 days(23 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Indiana State AGJan 20 · first

Montana State AGJan 20 · first · this page

Maine State AG+1d

Massachusetts State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Jan 20 (IN), last Jan 25 (NH) — 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.

Source URL: https://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-Notification-Letter-193.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 20, 2022
Raw hash: f8803364104b9d0d68a7e42fff0b44de33ed32ad83d3609d8fa11a862968a02b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySt. Lucie County's Drug Screening Lab

Victim entitySt. Lucie County's Drug Screening Lab

Incidentdiscovered Dec 28, 2021

Stated responseCorrected the misconfiguration

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov