ShellCodeX Breach Report
Washington State Food Worker Card Data Breach
foodworkercard.wa.gov
Verified breach
Accounts exposed
1,594,305
Breach date
17 Nov 2022
Added to tracker
31 Mar 2024
Data classes
5
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.
Exposed data
Dates of birth
Driver's licenses
Email addresses
Geographic locations
Names
Recommended actions
- Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Washington State Food Worker Card — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
- Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.
- Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
Am I affected?
Check whether your email address appears in this breach.
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