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Western Washington University Foundation
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Full breach record for Western Washington University Foundation →Western Washington University Foundation, a education sector entity reported a ransomware incident to the Washington Attorney General. The organization became aware of the incident on 2020-09-09 and filed notice on 2020-09-17. 165,000 Washington residents were affected. 8 days elapsed between awareness and notification. 215 days to identify the breach. 0 days to contain the breach.
Washington clock✓ WA AG ≤30d8 days 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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed165,000 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://data.wa.gov/resource/sb4j-ca4h.json?id=10311
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Sep 17, 2020
- Raw hash
- 02f78b729c612ca3bc481e1933a14f3fc621941b518ee67f27e6c57d0ef16915
Reporting entity
- Name
- Western Washington University Foundationnorm: western washington university
Victim entity
- Name
- Western Washington University Foundationnorm: western washington university
- Industry
- Educationllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Sep 9, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 165,000
- Data types
- —
- Attack vector
- Ransomware
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 days(8 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.