PhysicalTheftCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICMINORMediumContained
Washington State University
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Full breach record for Washington State University →Washington State University reported the theft of a locked safe containing a hard drive on April 21, 2017. The drive contained unencrypted personal information (names, addresses) of survey participants, including minors, from the Social & Economic Sciences Research Center. The university notified law enforcement, retained forensic investigators, and offered credit monitoring to affected individuals. No evidence of data misuse was found.
California clockDiscovered Apr 21, 2017 → Notified Jun 9, 201749d ✓ CA 60-day OK7 weeks discovery → filing
This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_c5fe9f30f1d5bf9aMontana State AGfiled 2017-06-09Verified
- bd_e1b79e33bbbba8a1Oregon State AGfiled 2017-06-09Verified
- bd_3150481dda6620eeWashington State AGfiled 2017-06-08(1d gap)Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-72496
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jun 9, 2017
- Raw hash
- a35c9afa642c72a88471d34d7fde5a227af55197c321a46b1658fe08ff473279
Reporting entity
- Name
- Washington State Universitynorm: washington state university
- Domain
- wsu.edu
Victim entity
- Name
- Washington State Universitynorm: washington state university
- Domain
- wsu.edu
Incident
- Discovered
- Apr 21, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jun 9, 2017
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICMINOR
- Attack vector
- Unknown
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 7 weeks(49 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 49d
- Discovery-date grounding
- letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Apr 21, 2017→ Notified: Jun 9, 201749d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.