UnknownPCIFinancial accountLow

THE WESTERN UNION COMPANY

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 27, 2012

To disclose

—

Affected

3state residents only

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for THE WESTERN UNION COMPANY →3 incidents on file

Western Union reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2012-09-27. 3 Massachusetts residents were affected. The report records the breach type as electronic.

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Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Sep 27, 2012

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3 affectedView incident

Name: THE WESTERN UNION COMPANY
norm: the western union

Name: THE WESTERN UNION COMPANY
norm: the western union

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: PCI
Data elements: Payment card number
Stated not affected: Social Security numberFinancial account numberDriver's licence number
The filing states these were not involved. Categories absent from both lists were not addressed either way.
Attack vector: Unknown

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://www.mass.gov/doc/data-breach-report-2012/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 27, 2012
Raw hash: 7f9333c84b2060dbfa8b42a2baa3ad562ecedfbeaa6c20b14f622ad280391e0d

Reporting entityTHE WESTERN UNION COMPANY

Victim entityTHE WESTERN UNION COMPANY

IncidentUnknown

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov