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HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceVulnerability ExploitSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

WESTERN UNION FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 20, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for WESTERN UNION FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. →2 incidents on file

Western Union Financial Services, Inc. disclosed that an unauthorized party accessed personal information in July 2016 via a computer intrusion against a vendor-supplied external system used for secure data storage. The affected data may include driver's license numbers, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth. Western Union stated that no Western Union systems were directly involved and that the compromised vendor system is no longer in use. The company offered one year of Experian ProtectMyID to affected individuals.

Incident timeline

Jul 1, 2016

Begins

Dec 20, 2016

Filed

This filing is one of 5 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
Massachusetts State AGDec 20 · first
Washington State AGDec 20 · first
Montana State AGDec 20 · first
California State AGDec 20 · first · this page
Oregon State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Dec 20 (MA), last Dec 27 (OR) — a 7-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.