WDFW Hacked

Didn't see this elsewhere, so apologies if it's a duplicated topic.

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091
http://wdfw.wa.gov/

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Washington State Office of Cyber Security

August 24, 2016

WDFW contact: Bruce Botka, (360) 902-2262
OCS contact: Andrew Garber, (360) 407-7995

Hunting and fishing license sales suspended while state agencies investigate system vulnerability

OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has temporarily suspended the sale of fishing and hunting licenses while it works with the state Office of Cyber Security (OCS) to investigate a vulnerability in an outside vendor’s license sale system that was recently exploited in several states, including Washington.

The vendor’s vulnerability allowed access to some personal information provided by customers who purchased fishing and hunting licenses. WDFW and OCS are working with the vendor and collaborating with law enforcement, federal agencies, and officials in other states to determine how much information was accessed.

WDFW is working to resume license sales as soon as it can ensure the security of the system. More information will be released as it becomes available.

Thanks for posting this. By any chance do you know which store had the problem?

My read on it is that it affected all licence sales as it was on the central server that the hack occurred.  So not just one store or even chain of stores. 

Go go credit monitoring

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Go go credit monitoring

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Lucky for me WDFW got my SSN wrong.  Been meaning to fix that.  Might just not bother for a while.

Oregon too!

Oregon too!

How'd you find that out?

Oregon too!

How'd you find that out?

Stateman Journal had a blurb about it this morning.  Said it was only the on-line process and that the outside vendors and ODFW offices can still sell licenses, etc.  They are studying what information may have been compromised.