MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareRansom DemandedData EncryptedMedium
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
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Full breach record for NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY →Northeastern University, a education sector entity reported a ransomware incident to the Washington Attorney General. The organization became aware of the incident on 2020-07-16 and filed notice on 2020-08-12. 2,602 Washington residents were affected. 27 days elapsed between awareness and notification. 160 days to identify the breach. 0 days to contain the breach.
Washington clock✓ WA AG ≤30d27 days 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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,602 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://data.wa.gov/resource/sb4j-ca4h.json?id=10219
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Aug 12, 2020
- Raw hash
- 2d0d50208a63fefc001e399dfd918138787e55b0efd3f05b4d2b60eb0f879717
Reporting entity
- Name
- NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYnorm: northeastern university
Victim entity
- Name
- NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYnorm: northeastern university
- Industry
- Educationllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Jul 16, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,602
- Data types
- —
- Attack vector
- Ransomware
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 27 days(27 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- WA AG ≤30d
- 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.