MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareData EncryptedData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MinorMediumContained

The Washington Center for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Youth

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 16, 2023

Filed

Jan 18, 2024

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

594state residents only

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for The Washington Center for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Youth →

Washington Center for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Youth (CDHY) disclosed a ransomware incident discovered on Dec 16, 2023, affecting systems holding student and employee PII including SSNs, DOBs, and medical info. 594 Washington residents were notified. CDHY engaged forensic experts, notified law enforcement (FBI/WSP), and provided 12 months of Kroll identity monitoring.

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Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d5 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 33 days

Dec 14, 2023

Begins

Dec 16, 2023

Discovered

Jan 18, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed594 affectedView incident

Name: Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black
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Name: The Washington Center for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Youth
norm: the washington center for deaf hard of hearing youth
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Dec 16, 2023
Breach occurred: Dec 14, 2023
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 16, 2024
Affected individuals: 594state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Minor
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Washington Attorney General’s Office pursuant to RCW 42.56.590(7)

During the incident: Engaged leading outside cybersecurity experts to assist in the investigation and remediation
Notified federal and state law enforcement, including the FBI Cyber Crimes Division and the Washington State Patrol
Secured the services of Kroll to provide 12 months of identity monitoring services at no cost
Changes made: Continuing to evaluate additional actions to strengthen network security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(33 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >30d
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.

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/BreachA27623.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 18, 2024
Raw hash: dfb511f8abb2f3e52c82d4478bdf0ab70489752090d4a04220bacf9e662d2c2b

Reporting entityWoods Rogers Vandeventer Black

Victim entityThe Washington Center for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Youth

Incidentdiscovered Dec 16, 2023

Stated responseEngaged leading outside cybersecurity experts to assist in the investigation and remediation

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com