Cybersecurity incident — 2021-01-25 00:00:00
Affected organization: Washington's State Auditor office
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: TA505
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

Washington's State Auditor Office suffers a data breach that exposes the personal information in 1.6 million employment claims after a threat actor exploited a vulnerability in a secure file transfer service from Accellion.