HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association

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Severity

High

Discovered

Jan 2, 2022

Filed

May 3, 2022

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

1,511state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

70%

Full breach record for Wells Fargo Bank, National Association →90 incidents on file

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. reported a data breach in Washington involving the theft of customer PII including SSNs, DOBs, and contact info. The incident occurred on Dec 31, 2021, was discovered Jan 2, 2022, and affected 1,511 Washington residents. The bank offered credit monitoring services.

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Washington clock✗ WA AG >90d17 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 · 2 days

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 121 days

Dec 31, 2021

Begins

Jan 2, 2022

Discovered

May 3, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+8 wks slower

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Oregon State AGbd_5da68f4b3b2cd8df2022-05-04 · +1dVerified
California State AGbd_84ec54b356c512072022-05-05 · +2dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_c37b33fa9e99f29e2022-05-05 · +2dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_f51aabad899092de2022-05-05 · +2dVerified

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 7d gap

Montana State AGbd_5a6468a6e01614022022-05-06 · +3dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_06ea878b329452472022-05-10 · +7dVerified

Name: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
norm: wells fargo bank national

Name: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
norm: wells fargo bank national
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 2, 2022
Breach occurred: Dec 31, 2021
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 3, 2022
Affected individuals: 1,511state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Theft or Mistake
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 1-99dexposure 0d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Washington Attorney General

During the incident: Offering 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring through Experian IdentityWorks
Changes made: Encouraging individuals to monitor account statements
Placing password protection on accounts
Changing usernames, passwords, and security questions
Reporting suspicious emails to [REDACTED-EMAIL]
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(121 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 · 7 filings · 6 states

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Washington State AGMay 3 · first · this page

Oregon State AG+1d

California State AG+2d

New Hampshire State AG+2d

Massachusetts State AG+2d

Montana State AG+3d

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing May 3 (WA), last May 10 (MA) — a 7-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.

Source URL: https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachA9361.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 3, 2022
Raw hash: 8eb919446e05d4d058d625cd5db37408dec96effb614fdb6c824b1013f63aaaa

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWells Fargo Bank, National Association

Victim entityWells Fargo Bank, National Association

Incidentdiscovered Jan 2, 2022

Stated responseOffering 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring through Experian IdentityWorks

ComplianceWA AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com