PhysicalEducationEducationTheftCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPHIHealth (basic)HighContained

Art Center Inc

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Severity

High

Discovered

Oct 27, 2022

Filed

Mar 14, 2023

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

1,081state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

71%

Full breach record for Art Center Inc →

Art Center Inc. d/b/a Northwest College of Art & Design (NCAD) reported the theft of a device containing personal information of 1,081 Washington residents on October 27, 2022. Data potentially exposed included names, SSNs, DOBs, driver's license numbers, passport numbers, financial account details, and health insurance information. NCAD notified law enforcement and offered credit monitoring.

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Washington clock✗ WA AG >90d20 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 138 days

Oct 27, 2022

Begins

Oct 27, 2022

Discovered

Mar 14, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+10 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_3a1f646274e783532023-03-14Verified
Vermont State AGbd_838fd36d50dea1502023-03-14Verified
Montana State AGbd_f67551089d8e7b7c2023-03-14Verified
Maine State AGbd_fb06400ad7c2b40b2023-03-14Verified

Name: Art Center Inc
norm: art center

Name: Art Center Inc
norm: art center
Also named: Art Center Inc.dba oflegal entity
Northwest College of Art & Designdba oftrade name
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Oct 27, 2022
Breach occurred: Oct 27, 2022
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 14, 2023
Affected individuals: 1,081state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPHI
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberDriver's licence numberFinancial account numberDate of birthPassport numberHealth insurance IDMedical information
WA-stated cause: Theft or Mistake
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 1-99dexposure 0d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Washington Attorney General

During the incident: Reported the incident to law enforcement
Offering complimentary credit and identity protection monitoring
Changes made: Implementing additional security measures on NCAD devices
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(138 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >90d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Massachusetts State AGMar 14 · first

Vermont State AGMar 14 · first

Montana State AGMar 14 · first

Maine State AGMar 14 · first

Washington State AGMar 14 · first · this page

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/BreachA20260.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 14, 2023
Raw hash: 7dc99aa8689134c158071eb49a2584ebdb4a355d9072b1fcf0e7284ad548d63c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityArt Center Inc

Victim entityArt Center Inc

Incidentdiscovered Oct 27, 2022

Stated responseReported the incident to law enforcement

ComplianceWA AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com