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WESTERN UNION FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 17, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

25state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

95%

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

Western Union Financial Services, Inc reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2021-03-17. 25 Massachusetts residents were affected. The report records the breach type as electronic.

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Massachusetts clock✓ MA credit monitoring due

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Mar 17, 2021

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

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

Part of Accellion supply-chain incident (2021) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_8fc621545c740b562021-03-17Verified
Indiana State AGbd_9f187e4a92022af12021-03-17Verified
Maine State AGbd_fa64d47849f6b1192021-03-17Candidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_076b587840f1845e2021-03-18 · +1dVerified

Name: WESTERN UNION FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.
norm: western union financial

Name: WESTERN UNION FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.
norm: western union financial

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 25state-resident count only
Data types: Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDriver's licence number
Stated not affected: Financial account numberPayment card number
The filing states these were not involved. Categories absent from both lists were not addressed either way.
Attack vector: Unknown

Compliance flags: MA credit monitoring due
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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California State AGMar 17 · first

Indiana State AGMar 17 · first

Maine State AGMar 17 · first

Massachusetts State AGMar 17 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+1d

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://www.mass.gov/doc/data-breach-report-2021/download
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Filed at: Mar 17, 2021
Raw hash: ab0c52789f939ecba93b4ba6c9a137f5ccf6e1da3dba6c714d69f0998e91c626

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWESTERN UNION FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.

Victim entityWESTERN UNION FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.

IncidentUnknown

ComplianceMA credit monitoring due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov