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MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareData EncryptedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Seattle Education Association

bd_14340a3c5008c3f0 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 4, 2021

Filed

Apr 12, 2021

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

17state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

The Seattle Education Association (SEA), a local affiliate of the Washington Education Association (WEA), notified individuals that on January 4, 2021, an SEA server was encrypted by malware. While no evidence of data access was found, the possibility could not be ruled out. Affected data included names and other personal information. WEA provided 12 months of credit monitoring via TransUnion.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 98 days

Jan 4, 2021

Discovered

Apr 12, 2021

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 ↗
Washington State AGFeb 23 · first
Montana State AG+48d · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 23 (WA), last Apr 12 (MT) — a 48-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.