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Breach occurred 2022-11-17Verifiedfoodworkercard.wa.gov
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.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Washington State Food Worker Card data breach occurred on November 17, 2022. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on March 31, 2024.
1,594,305 accounts were affected by the Washington State Food Worker Card data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Washington State Food Worker Card breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Driver's licenses, Email addresses, Geographic locations, Names.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Washington State Food Worker Card breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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