The Washington state Department of Labor & Industries is reporting that it was recently notified that one of its contractors, Pacific Market Research, was the victim of a ransomware attack on its data systems.
During that incident, data on some of PMR’s servers was reportedly encrypted by an unauthorized party. PMR’s system contained one document that listed contact information, claim numbers and dates of birth for 16,466 workers who had workers’ compensation claims in 2019, which PMR had used to conduct a customer service survey on behalf of L&I.
This incident did not involve L&I’s computer systems, according to the department.
PMR does not believe the document was accessed or taken in the May 22 incident, but cannot be 100% certain, according to the department.
The document reportedly did not contain medical information, social security numbers, bank or credit card information, or other personal information.
L&I and PMR are notifying the workers by mail and offering 12 months of free credit monitoring.
Topics Washington Contractors
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