Washington State Food Worker Card

What Happened

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.

Compromised Data

Dates of birth
Driver's licenses
Email addresses
Geographic locations
Names

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    1.6 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    November 2022

  • Added to HIBP:

    31 Mar 2024

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