MalwareGovernmentGovernmentRansomwareRansom DemandedData EncryptedDelayed DiscoveryMedium
The Seattle Public Library
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Full breach record for The Seattle Public Library →The Seattle Public Library, a government sector entity reported a ransomware incident to the Washington Attorney General. The organization became aware of the incident on 2024-05-25 and filed notice on 2024-12-12. 26,965 Washington residents were affected. 201 days elapsed between awareness and notification. 1 days to identify the breach. 0 days to contain the breach.
Washington clock✗ WA AG >90d29 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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed26,965 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://data.wa.gov/resource/sb4j-ca4h.json?id=18124
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Dec 12, 2024
- Raw hash
- 1cb4749c7d82da0642456c210b5c0ed37f58d52f50862ebacd8e8e65e803e2eb
Reporting entity
- Name
- The Seattle Public Librarynorm: the seattle public library
Victim entity
- Name
- The Seattle Public Librarynorm: the seattle public library
- Industry
- Governmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- May 25, 2024
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 26,965
- Data types
- —
- Attack vector
- Ransomware
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 29 weeks(201 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.