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.
... and this is like the 7th data breach my data has been exposed in. The first one was back in like 2010 when the IRS was hacked and lost all my data and gave me 5 years of credit monitoring for free. There were three other smaller data breaches including my data. Then Experian lost all my data in 2017 and gave me like 3 years of free credit monitoring. And there have been several since then, too. Sheesh. (Again.)
The best part of the Experian monitoring was how shitty it was. It never picked up that we'd moved out of California, for example. The whole thing is such a dumpster fire. I had a phone call with my bank last week where I was like "hey, remember how you woke me up at 3am to ask if I was buying eight $100 gift cards at an Ikea in Perth? And I said TOTALLY NO? you never did pay me back for that." To which the bank said "uhhh apparently we never actually filed a claim either, despite the fact that you texted us back immediately and called us as soon as we opened. Uhm." You would think that the data integrity industry would be interested in maintaining our faith in data integrity.
Oh geeze, we use their software so if this is a vulnerability... Have you checked your details on haveibeenpwned.com?