by goobster

Looks like my data has been stolen again ... from the people who helped me recover my account (and money) from the last WA State data breach.

The data appears to have been compromised through Accellion, a third-party vendor that was contracting with the state auditor’s office. The data exposed is quite sensitive, and includes names, bank account and routing information, social security numbers, place of employment, and driver’s license numbers. If you participated in the SharedWork Program in 2020 or filed an unemployment insurance claim in 2020, your personal information may have been affected.

Which is literally the story of me and my HR department trying to regain control of my identity since May (when my data was stolen in the FIRST data breach) that prevented me from getting my SharedWork payments I earned in June... and finally got paid on the first week of January after finally being approved in December, one day before Christmas.

Every part of this release says, "Hey goobster... you know that account work we spent the last 7 months doing? And all the extra identity protections and confirmations we required from you? Yeah, well... we gave that data to hackers. Sorry. Good luck."

Sheesh.