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KIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUM

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 16, 2020

Filed

Sep 9, 2020

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

57,024state residents only

Confidence

69%

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KidsQuest Children's Museum notified Washington AG of a third-party ransomware attack via vendor Blackbaud. Incident occurred Feb-May 2020, discovered July 16, 2020. 57,024 Washington residents affected. Data included names, addresses, birth dates, and contact info. Ransom was paid and data allegedly destroyed. Notifications sent July 21, 2020.

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Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d8 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 160 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 55 days

Feb 7, 2020

Begins

Jul 16, 2020

Discovered

Sep 9, 2020

Filed

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed57,024 affectedView incident

Name: KIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
norm: kidsquest children s museum
Domain: kidsquestmuseum.org
Industry: Non-Profit/Charity

Name: KIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
norm: kidsquest children s museum
Domain: kidsquestmuseum.org
Industry: Non-Profit/Charity
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Jul 16, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 7, 2020 – May 20, 2020
Undetected for: 160 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 21, 2020
Affected individuals: 57,024state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)PII
Data elements: NameDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 100-199dexposure 100-199d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Filed notification with Washington State Attorney General
Third party: via Blackbaud
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Emailed all patrons in our database that we had email addresses for and had not opted out of email communication
Mailed post cards to patrons in our database that met the requirements for contacting
Hired a third-party team of experts to monitor the dark web
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(55 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >30d
Discovery-date grounding: AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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.

Source URL: https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM10303.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 9, 2020
Raw hash: 778a3dd28e6052af0cde8c93e2153c13542ac6b58ab9d83e8926d904762fd6cc

Reporting entityKIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUM

Victim entityKIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUM

Incidentdiscovered Jul 16, 2020

Stated responseEmailed all patrons in our database that we had email addresses for and had not opted out of email communication

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com