HackingTargetedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumContained
WHYY, Inc
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Full breach record for WHYY, Inc →WHYY, Inc. notified consumers of a data breach discovered on June 29, 2023, where an unauthorized actor accessed systems and copied names and Social Security numbers. WHYY engaged third-party cybersecurity specialists, reported the incident to federal law enforcement, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring via Kroll.
Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday10 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_4e91c9bd4ddcf04dMontana State AGfiled 2023-09-08Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-09-08-whyy-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Sep 8, 2023
- Raw hash
- 919e2afb078885c51e65ae2c17120be328cbcb346965d76c891a111da632633b
Reporting entity
- Name
- WHYY, Incnorm: whyy
Victim entity
- Name
- WHYY, Incnorm: whyy
Incident
- Discovered
- Jun 29, 2023
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Sep 8, 2023
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- reported this event to federal law enforcement and government regulators where required
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 10 weeks(71 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- VT AG >45 bday
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.