WA Report Card

• Fox News

• July 30, 2019

• Alleged Seattle hacker arrested in Capital One breach, boasted on social media: report

• https://www.foxnews.com/tech/seattle-hacker-arrested-capital-one-breach-boasted-social-media-hack

  Seattle software engineer was responsible for the hacking of Capital One and obtained the personal data of over 100 million people in what appears to be one of the biggest breaches of a big bank in history.

• Wall Street Journal

• February 15, 2015

• New Report Says Computer Criminals Stole Millions From Banks

• https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-report-says-computer-criminals-stole-millions-from-banks-1424033504

  A Russian-speaking gang of computer criminals has stolen millions of dollars since late 2013 from banks in Russia, Eastern Europe and the U.S., according to a report from Kaspersky Lab ZAO, a Russian computer-security firm.
  

• Databreaches.net

• August 12, 2014

• Seattle, Portland Archdiocese Login Credentials Found In CyberVor Hacker Database

• https://www.databreaches.net/seattle-portland-archdiocese-login-credentials-found-in-cybervor-hacker-database/

  Close to 6,000 identity theft victims have been documented but Catholic church officials in Seattle and Portland say they’re still stumped about how their data breaches occurred. Now a potential clue has surfaced – a disturbing link to a newly discovered Russian hacker group called CyberVor.
  

• Wired

• June 11, 2021

• A Mystery Malware Stole 26 Million Passwords From Windows PCs

• https://www.wired.com/story/mystery-malware-stole-26-million-passwords-from-windows-computers/
  

  1.2 TB database containing login credentials, browser cookies, autofill data, and payment information extracted by malware that has yet to be identified. The stash also included over 1 million images and more than 650,000 Word and PDF files.
  

• Seattle Medium

• September 22, 2017

• What You Should Know About The Equifax Data Breach

• https://seattlemedium.com/know-equifax-data-breach/

  This massive cybersecurity breach includes federal income tax records, as well as employee records for government employees and those of Fortune 500 firms. Even recipients of major government programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are affected.
  

• ICE – Homeland Security

• February 8, 2022

• $4.5 billion in stolen cryptocurrency

• https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-homeland-security-investigations-partners-investigation-leading-2-arrests-alleged

  Conspiracy to launder cryptocurrency that was stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange, presently valued at approximately $4.5 billion.
  

• Q13 Fox

• January 12, 2021

• King, Pierce County schools hit with data breach targeting personal information

• https://www.q13fox.com/news/puget-sound-educational-service-district-reports-data-breach

  The Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD) sent out a notice to current and former students and employees of King and Pierce County Schools upon learning of a data breach within their computer network.
  

• Washington Law Center

• July 1, 2021

• Massive Data Breach Impacts Injured Workers with Washington L&I Claims

• https://www.washingtonlawcenter.com/data-breach-impacts-injured-workers-washington-l-i-claims/

  Ransomware attack perpetrated against Pacific Market Research, a data collection firm hired by the Department of Labor & Industries.
  

• Seattle Times

• February 20, 2021

• Hack of Seattle payments processing firm puts local governments on alert

• https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/hack-of-seattle-payments-processing-firm-puts-local-governments-on-alert/

  Automatic Funds Transfer Services (AFTS), which provides payment processing, billing, mailing and other services for municipal utilities and other customers, was hit by a so-called ransomware attack Feb. 3-4, according to media reports and statements by AFTS customers.
  

• Crosscut

• July 24, 2020

• More WA voters are telling our pollsters they are Republicans

• https://crosscut.com/2020/07/more-wa-voters-are-telling-our-pollster-they-are-republicans
  

• My Northwest

• Mar 20, 2019,

• Presidential poll: 73 percent of voters haven’t heard of Jay Inslee

• https://mynorthwest.com/1315393/jay-inslee-cnn-poll-2020/
  

• Pressreader

• May 18, 2022

• Musk Digs In on Twitter Accounts

• https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-wall-street-journal/20220518/282067690539884

  Elon Musk said his $44 billion purchase of Twitter Inc. can't move forward until the company is clearer about how many of its accounts are fake, casting fresh doubt on his planned takeover of the social media company.
  

• Q13 Fox

• February 11, 2022

• Data breach: Thieves got access to 650,000 individuals’ info on Washington database

• https://www.q13fox.com/news/thieves-got-access-to-650000-individuals-info-on-washington-database

  The breach, which was detected Jan. 24 and disclosed last week, affected personal data in active, expired, revoked or suspended licenses for 23 of the 39 professions and businesses that require state licensing. The database is maintained by Salesforce, a San Francisco software company.
  

• Seattle Times

• May 21, 2020

• ‘Hundreds of millions of dollars’ lost in Washington to unemployment fraud amid coronavirus joblessness surge

• https://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/washington-adds-more-than-145000-weekly-jobless-claims-as-coronavirus-crisis-lingers/

  International fraud scheme that hammered the state’s unemployment insurance system with unemployment benefits paid to criminals who used stolen identities to file claims during the coronavirus pandemic.

• US News Today

• December 30, 2020

• How scammers siphoned $36B in fraudulent unemployment payments from U.S.

• https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/12/30/unemployment-fraud-how-international-scammers-took-36-b-us/3960263001/

  U.S. unemployment benefits fattened by COVID-19 relief, were scooped up by an international imposter attack that has contributed to at least $36 billion being siphoned away from out-of-work Americans

• King 5

• February 7, 2018

• DOL software glitch affects voter registration for thousands

• https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/nearly-7000-wa-voters-find-out-they-werent-registered-after-software-glitch/281-515380014
  

  A malfunction in the state’s driver licensing system failed to send necessary registration information along to the state's elections office, according to the Department of Licensing. When registering for a state license, residents can simultaneously register to vote through the Motor Voter system.
  

• Seattle Times

• May 21, 2020

• ‘Hundreds of millions of dollars’ lost in Washington to unemployment fraud amid coronavirus joblessness surge

• https://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/washington-adds-more-than-145000-weekly-jobless-claims-as-coronavirus-crisis-lingers/

  International fraud scheme that hammered the state’s unemployment insurance system with unemployment benefits paid to criminals who used stolen identities to file claims during the coronavirus pandemic.

• Daily Caller

• May 21, 2020

• https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/21/washington-state-reportedly-lost-hundreds-millions-nigerian-unemployment-fraud-scheme/
  

• Federal Trade Commission

• 2022

• Fraud Facts - Imposter Scams, Top 15 States

• https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/federal.trade.commission/viz/FraudReports/FraudFacts

  WASHINGTON #5

• Huffington Post

• February 13, 2014

• The Most Fraudulent States In America: 24/7 Wall St.

• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/most-fraudulent-states_n_1418264?ec_carp=62654432287342262

  WASHINGTON #9

HOW HAS WA IMPROVED SINCE 2014…..

• Seattle Times

• November 6, 2021

• Washington sets record for data breaches and ransomware attacks, says AG Ferguson

• https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-sets-record-for-data-breaches-and-ransomware-attacks-says-ag-ferguson/

  So far in 2021, 6.3 million notices of data breaches have been sent to Washingtonians — by far the largest number since Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s office began tracking this. The number of data breaches reported to Ferguson’s office also skyrocketed to 280, blowing past the previous record of 78 and last year’s total of 60,
  

• Wallethub

• December 7, 2021

• WA is the worst state for Identity Theft & Fraud

• https://wallethub.com/edu/states-where-identity-theft-and-fraud-are-worst/17549

  THE WORST STATE FOR IDENTITY THEFT & FRAUD

• seniorhousingnet

• The Best and Worst States for Elder Fraud in 2021

• WA is bottom ten for WORST states for elder fraud

• https://www.seniorhousingnet.com/elder-fraud-report

  BOTTOM TEN WORST STATES FOR ELDER FRAUD