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WESTERN UNION FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Dec 20, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

993state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

95%
Full breach record for WESTERN UNION FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. →2 incidents on file

Western Union Financial Services Inc reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2016-12-20. 993 Massachusetts residents were affected. The report records the breach type as electronic.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Dec 20, 2016

Filed

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

This filing is one of 5 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
California State AGDec 20 · first
Washington State AGDec 20 · first
Montana State AGDec 20 · first
Massachusetts State AGDec 20 · first · this page
Oregon State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Dec 20 (CA), last Dec 27 (OR) — a 7-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.