United Marketing, Inc.

The Washington State Office of the Attorney General reported that United Marketing, Inc. experienced a data breach involving unauthorized access to employee email accounts. The incident occurred between April 9, 2021, and December 28, 2021, potentially exposing the personal information of 4,639 Washington residents. The compromised data included names, Social Security numbers, driver's licenses, and financial information. United Marketing notified affected residents on July 13, 2022.

Source: https://www.atg.wa.gov/data-breach-notifications | https://data.wa.gov/resource/sb4j-ca4h.json?id=13577

TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/united-marketing

"id": "uni754072625",
"linkid": "united-marketing",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "4/2021",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 4639,
                        'name': 'United Marketing, Inc.',
                        'type': 'Company'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Email Account Compromise',
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 4639,
                 'personally_identifiable_information': True,
                 'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Names',
                                              'Social Security numbers',
                                              "Driver's licenses",
                                              'Financial information']},
 'date_publicly_disclosed': '2022-07-13',
 'description': 'Unauthorized access to employee email accounts potentially '
                'exposing personal information of 4,639 Washington residents.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Names',
                                 'Social Security numbers',
                                 "Driver's licenses",
                                 'Financial information']},
 'references': [{'source': 'Washington State Office of the Attorney General'}],
 'title': 'United Marketing, Inc. Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}