![]() The Department of Financial Institutions has posted helpful information related to your rights and responsibilities regarding unauthorized access and use of funds, in addition to suggestions on how to make your financial institution account more secure. You may want to consult with your bank or financial institution. More information about credit monitoring is available on the State Auditor's Office website (select "Legal notice about the data incident" then the tab "Offer of free credit monitoring/Identity theft protection services".) Do I need to change my bank account? The Auditor's Office has contracted with Experian for this service and will include instructions in the notification email. The Auditor’s Office has arranged for 12 months of credit monitoring and identity restoration services at no cost for people whose data may have been affected. If my data was affected, will I be provided credit monitoring? The data files that were exposed in the security breach included unemployment compensation claim information including the person’s name, social security number, date of birth, street and email addresses, bank account number and bank routing number. The information did not include employer names or driver’s licenses. ![]() What type of information was compromised? If your information was included in the data breach, you will be notified directly by the Auditor's Office via the email address associated with your unemployment insurance account, between February 25 and March 9. This much is known: The breach included information for anyone who received unemployment benefits from the Employment Security Department between 20. ![]() The Auditor’s Office and law enforcement are still working to determine the full extent of the data breach. Who was affected by the data breach? When will I be notified if my information was exposed during the breach? Accellion, the Auditor’s Office and law enforcement are investigating the incident. ![]() The data breach involved Accellion, a private software service provider the State Auditor’s Office was using to transfer data. We recently learned that someone may have gained unauthorized access to personal information for more than 1 million Washingtonians, including many state employees. ![]()
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