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Whatcom County Library System
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Full breach record for Whatcom County Library System →Whatcom County Library System, a government sector entity reported a ransomware incident to the Washington Attorney General. The organization became aware of the incident on 2022-06-26 and filed notice on 2022-07-28. 630 Washington residents were affected. 32 days elapsed between awareness and notification.
Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d5 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 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Ransomware claims (1)
- bd_edf5c64270efe458Leak Siteunsafefiled 2022-12-21(146d gap)Verified by operator
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://data.wa.gov/resource/sb4j-ca4h.json?id=13649
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jul 28, 2022
- Raw hash
- e461b7c9c65820f7f88e9c6981079d18e7bf3d6e6c418777f5846c6e6f0db162
Reporting entity
- Name
- Whatcom County Library Systemnorm: whatcom county library system
- Domain
- wcls.org
Victim entity
- Name
- Whatcom County Library Systemnorm: whatcom county library system
- Domain
- wcls.org
- Industry
- Governmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Jun 26, 2022
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 630
- Data types
- —
- Attack vector
- Ransomware
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 5 weeks(32 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.