MalwareProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesMalware OtherDelayed DiscoveryLow
SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc.
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Full breach record for SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc. →SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc., a business sector entity reported a malware incident to the Washington Attorney General. The organization became aware of the incident on 2020-12-18 and filed notice on 2021-08-24. 639 Washington residents were affected. 249 days elapsed between awareness and notification.
Washington clock✗ WA AG >90d36 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.
This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_bb3c6553e769b6d4Montana State AGfiled 2021-08-24Verified
- bd_0db3e2cd96640c93South Carolina State AGfiled 2021-08-25(1d gap)Verified
- bd_050d1847cd215db9California State AGfiled 2021-08-27(3d gap)Verified
- bd_79b8e613fe4dbbffMaine State AGfiled 2021-08-27(3d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://data.wa.gov/resource/sb4j-ca4h.json?id=10863
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Aug 24, 2021
- Raw hash
- 94e924c1064cc91d4fab87f17c6172f103e91408c7ed741dd8af02ecfeef50c3
Reporting entity
- Name
- SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc.norm: smartstart employment screening
Victim entity
- Name
- SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc.norm: smartstart employment screening
- Industry
- Professional Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Dec 18, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 639
- Data types
- —
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- External
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 36 weeks(249 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- WA AG >90d
- 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.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.