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Kitsap Bank Data Breach

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NOTICE: If you received a NOTICE OF DATA BREACH letter from Kaye-Smith or Kitsap Bank, contact the Arnold Law Firm at 916-777-7777 to discuss your legal options, or submit a confidential Case Evaluation form here.
Kitsap data breach On or about September 16, 2022, Kaye-Smith, on behalf of Kitsap Bank (“Kitsap”), sent a Data Breach Letter (“Breach Letter”) to customers of Kitsap informing them that their names, addresses, and loan numbers had been stolen from Kaye-Smith by hackers during a ransomware attack (“data breach”). Kaye-Smith is a third-party mailing service provider for Kitsap, and they process the personal information of Kitsap customers. The data breach took place starting on or around May 18, 2022 through on or about June 9, 2022. In June 2022, Kaye-Smith, “engaged outside experts to help investigate suspicious activity relating to its operating environment.” The Breach Letter states a “discrete number of files were compromised as a part of a ransomware attack by a bad actor, with available logs identifying the first suspicious activity in late May 2022.” The subsequent Kaye-Smith “review” determined that names, addresses, and account numbers were “potentially affected” by the data breach. With respect to stolen “account numbers” and other financial information, the Maine Attorney General provides more specificity: “financial account number or credit/debit card number (in combination with security code, access code, password or PIN for the account).” Although the Breach Letter does not specify when the breach was discovered, the Maine Attorney General’s website states (based on information provided by Kaye-Smith’s lawyer) that the data breach was ultimately discovered on August 9, 2022. Kitsap Bank is a regional bank started in 1908 located at 619 Bay Street, Port Orchard, Washington 98366. It has twenty-two locations all of which are in Washington State. The data of over 13,534 individuals was compromised by this data breach. If you received a Breach Letter from Kaye-Smith or Kitsap, you were impacted by the data breach. Kaye-Smith/Kitsap has offered data breach victims 12 months of Equifax credit monitoring services.

WHAT INFORMATION IS INVOLVED?

According to Kaye-Smith and Kitsap, the following information was exposed:
  • Names
  • Addresses
  • Loan Numbers (as per the Maine Attorney General, financial account number or credit/debit card number (in combination with security code, access code, password or PIN for the account))
This information is called your Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”). It tells others about you and is considered part of your identity. Businesses are required to secure this information or risk facing statutory penalties, among other legal penalties. Stolen PII can be used by identity thieves to engage in fraudulent activity using your identity. The best way to protect yourself after a data breach is to sign up for credit and identity protection services as soon as possible. California offers extra protections and legal rights to its residents through the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”).

NOTICE: If you received a NOTICE OF DATA BREACH letter from Kaye-Smith or Kitsap, contact the Arnold Law Firm at 916-777-7777 to discuss your legal options, or submit a confidential Case Evaluation form here.

Settlement - $3,767,000

Truck Accident

A 20-year-old man who had been married for just 12 days left home on his way to work. He was driving on Pleasant Grove Road in Sutter County in the early morning when he came upon a slow-moving truck. As he pulled out to pass the truck, the truck driver turned left in front of him. The young man attempted to steer back into his lane but his vehicle struck an un-flagged piece of metal extending from the back of the truck. He died in the resulting crash.

Expert witnesses brought in by the Arnold Law Firm proved that the truck, owned and operated by a hauling firm, should never have been on the highway that morning. Specifically, the rear and side turn signals did not work and the rear-view mirror was in a poor state of adjustment at the time of the collision. As a result, the driver, who had failed to properly inspect the vehicle before setting out that morning, couldn’t see the young man’s vehicle as it attempted to pass.

The poor condition of the truck, its lack of maintenance and the manner in which it was operated were found to be substantial factors in causing the collision that killed the young man. The testimony also established that the man had been making a lawful pass at the lawful speed limit and acted reasonably when he attempted to avoid the collision.

The man’s 20-year-old widow was awarded $3,767,000.77, his parents were awarded $185,131 and the family was reimbursed $11,899 in funeral expenses. Though money is a poor substitute for a young man’s life, this verdict demonstrates that drivers who endanger the lives of others will be held accountable for their actions.