Washington State Food Worker Card data breach: 1.6M accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-03-31
In June 2023, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department announced a data breach of their Washington State Food Worker Card online training system. The breach was published to a popular hacking forum the year before and dated back to a 2018 database backup. Included in the data were 1.6M unique email addresses along with names, post codes, dates of birth and approximately 9.5k driver's licence numbers. Exposed data: dates of birth, driver's licenses, email addresses, geographic locations, names. The breach dates from Nov 17, 2022; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 31, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a Washington State Food Worker Card account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
Sources
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