MalwareFinancial ServicesFinanceRansomwareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 20, 2020

Filed

Jul 7, 2020

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

596state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation →

Freddie Mac notified Washington AG of a ransomware attack on a third-party vendor on May 20, 2020. The attack affected loan application data (SSN, DOB, bank info) of 596 Washington residents. No evidence of data access was found. Freddie Mac sent notifications and offered 2 years of credit monitoring.

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Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d7 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.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 48 days

May 20, 2020

Discovered

Jul 7, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Oregon State AGbd_380112a0064aa5152020-07-07Candidate
Indiana State AGbd_409d64172c25f9ad2020-07-07Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_4669003955e5090b2020-07-07Verified
California State AGbd_53a92a86dda03bc22020-07-07Verified

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New Hampshire State AGbd_853c01aa12dccb062020-07-13 · +6dVerified

Name: MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP
norm: morgan lewis bockius

Name: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
norm: federal home loan mortgage
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 20, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 7, 2020
Affected individuals: 596state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberFinancial account numberDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle Unknowndexposure Unknownd
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified State of Washington Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Sent notification letters to affected borrowers
Offering a complimentary two-year subscription to Experian’s identity theft and credit monitoring services
Changes made: Offering complimentary two-year subscription to Experian IdentityWorks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(48 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.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Oregon State AGJul 7 · first

Indiana State AGJul 7 · first

Massachusetts State AGJul 7 · first

California State AGJul 7 · first

Washington State AGJul 7 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Jul 7 (OR), last Jul 13 (NH) — a 6-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.

Source URL: https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM10565.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 7, 2020
Raw hash: 760a726328de34c34da599b376cc647a3ebedf8ec79b968b464cf7f51c5e2edb

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP

Victim entityFederal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation

Incidentdiscovered May 20, 2020

Stated responseSent notification letters to affected borrowers

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com