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EQUIFAX INC.

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Equifax, Inc., a finance sector entity reported a other incident to the Washington Attorney General. The organization became aware of the incident on 2017-07-29 and filed notice on 2017-09-07. 3,243,664 Washington residents were affected. 40 days elapsed between awareness and notification. 74 days to identify the breach. 2 days to contain the breach.

Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d6 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 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

bd_278155640602f868California State AGfiled 2017-09-07Verified
bd_d60b910cf11a2f9cOregon State AGfiled 2017-09-07Verified

Source provenance

Source URL: https://data.wa.gov/resource/sb4j-ca4h.json?id=9735
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 7, 2017
Raw hash: ab00288799ea17fde6c6a6738b4959ddde5244fa88a36dc412d387bb4417a402

Reporting entity

Name: EQUIFAX INC.
norm: equifax
Domain: equifax.com

Victim entity

Name: EQUIFAX INC.
norm: equifax
Domain: equifax.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Incident

Discovered: Jul 29, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,243,664
Data types: —
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: External

Compliance

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(40 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.