AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Civil Air Patrol

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 29, 2023

Filed

Aug 4, 2023

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Civil Air Patrol →

On June 29, 2023, a Civil Air Patrol employee inadvertently emailed a list containing names and Social Security numbers of employees to chaplain corps volunteers. The employee attempted to recall the message and instructed recipients to delete it. CAP investigated the incident and is offering credit monitoring services to affected individuals. The incident is considered resolved.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday5 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 36 days

Jun 29, 2023

Begins

Jun 29, 2023

Discovered

Aug 4, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_80f116b887aeda412023-08-04Verified
Montana State AGbd_930ee6b0b9034ded2023-08-04Candidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_9916c71b3984cfaa2023-08-04Verified
Indiana State AGbd_ab830a590bb5b1352023-08-04Verified

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Maine State AGbd_b9de0e9ae2b0558c2023-08-04Candidate

Name: Civil Air Patrol
norm: civil air patrol

Name: Civil Air Patrol
norm: civil air patrol
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Jun 29, 2023
Breach occurred: Jun 29, 2023
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 4, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Attempted to recall the message
Instructed all recipients to delete the e-mail message
Initiated an investigation to determine the full scope and impact of the incident
Located address information for the individuals whose personal information was listed
Providing access to 12/24 months of credit monitoring and identity protection services
Changes made: Reviewing and enhancing existing policies and procedures related to data privacy
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(36 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >14 bday
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Massachusetts State AGAug 4 · first

Montana State AGAug 4 · first

New Hampshire State AGAug 4 · first

Indiana State AGAug 4 · first

Maine State AGAug 4 · first

Vermont State AGAug 4 · first · this page

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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-08-04-civil-air-patrol-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 4, 2023
Raw hash: 67e989f3f7aa4fd66f38071dbb3e5f171eae4f0e06df117f8318e50ca8a0db08

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCivil Air Patrol

Victim entityCivil Air Patrol

Incidentdiscovered Jun 29, 2023

Stated responseAttempted to recall the message

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov