SPOKANE, Wash – The owner of the State Farm office on Indian Trail Road said, unfortunately, she’s not surprised about last week’s break-in.
“We’ve kind of been anticipating the day when I was going to happen,” Kirsty Bowman, owner of the Indian Trail State Farm, said.
Bowman says they were swift, and in the four minutes they were in the office, they were on the hunt for something very specific, “they were looking for private information.”
Luckily, because of their security practices, the intruders could not obtain any of Bowman’s 2000 clients’ information.
“As soon as it goes into the system, it’s masked, so we can’t even see it after it’s in there. There is also a two-lock system to get into our computers, so you can’t even do it if you don’t even have the passwords. There’s a little device that you have to touch but we have another security lock that’s on our computers too,” said Bowman
Bowman alerted Spokane Police, who responded to the scene. She says officers told her this was most likely not done by a transient person, but by someone who was looking for sensitive information.
We spoke to Dan Wordell, the Information Security Officer for the City of Spokane, and he says that if your sensitive information is ever stolen in the future, freeze your credit cards, check online accounts for unauthorized activity, leverage credit card monitoring services, and change online passwords from your bank account to your Amazon account.
