HackingOtherTargetedIdentity (basic)MediumContained

American Marriage Ministries

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 16, 2021

Filed

Jan 31, 2022

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

16,727state residents only

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for American Marriage Ministries →

American Marriage Ministries notified the Washington AG that ministers' names and dates of birth may be accessible on the internet. The incident was discovered on Dec 16, 2021, via forensic investigation. 16,727 WA residents affected. No SSN or financial data involved. FBI notified.

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Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d7 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 46 days

Dec 16, 2021

Discovered

Jan 31, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed16,727 affectedView incident

Name: Foster Garvey PC
norm: foster garvey

Name: American Marriage Ministries
norm: american marriage ministries
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Dec 16, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 31, 2022
Affected individuals: 16,727state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)
Data elements: NameDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Theft or Mistake
WA-stated duration: lifecycle Unknowndexposure Unknownd
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Washington Attorney General

During the incident: Retained a forensic investigator
Reported this matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (IC 3 report)
Changes made: Took immediate action to prevent a similar event happening in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(46 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >30d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/BreachA5298.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 31, 2022
Raw hash: 962a459db702ad81b9f4e1270a61f1a507a1ed0ae11ebb0c81432f462a5b3555

Reporting entityFoster Garvey PC

Victim entityAmerican Marriage Ministries

Incidentdiscovered Dec 16, 2021

Stated responseRetained a forensic investigator

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com