Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedAuthenticationFinancial accountIdentity (basic)Government IDPHIPIIHealth (basic)MediumResolved

Fuller Seminary

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 15, 2021

Filed

Jul 1, 2022

To disclose

28 weeks

Affected

704state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

70%

Full breach record for Fuller Seminary →

Fuller & Fuller, a legal services firm, disclosed a phishing incident affecting 704 Washington residents. Unauthorized access to an employee email account occurred between Oct 18 and Dec 11, 2021. The firm engaged outside cybersecurity professionals and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Washington clock✗ WA AG >90d28 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 · 58 days

discovery → filing · 28 weeks / 198 days

Oct 18, 2021

Begins

Dec 15, 2021

Discovered

Jul 1, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+10 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_6dc21e6712c7b67e2022-07-01Candidate

Name: Fuller Seminary
norm: fuller seminary
Domain: fuller.edu
Industry: Legal

Name: Fuller Seminary
norm: fuller seminary
Domain: fuller.edu
Industry: Legal
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 15, 2021
Breach occurred: Oct 18, 2021 – Dec 11, 2021
Undetected for: 58 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 1, 2022
Affected individuals: 704state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)PII
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberDriver's licence numberFinancial account numberDate of birthHealth insurance IDMedical informationUsername + password
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 1-99dexposure 1-99d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Washington State Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Launched an investigation in consultation with outside cybersecurity professionals
Offering a complimentary one-year membership in Equifax Credit Watch Gold
Changes made: Continually evaluate and modify practices and internal controls to enhance the security and privacy of your information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 28 weeks(198 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.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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Washington State AGJul 1 · first

Washington State AGJul 1 · first · this page

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/BreachA12444.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 1, 2022
Raw hash: 2f5dfd349e92bbd35878178c3f1c980c37c03819569018c6710cef6c106723cf

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFuller Seminary

Victim entityFuller Seminary

Incidentdiscovered Dec 15, 2021

Stated responseLaunched an investigation in consultation with outside cybersecurity professionals

ComplianceWA AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com