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Communications Workers of America

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jan 20, 2021

To disclose

Affected

8state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Communications Workers of America2 incidents on file

Communications Workers of America (CWA) notified Montana residents that a document containing names and Social Security Numbers was stored on a private server without encryption or password protection. CWA removed the data and offered 12 months of Experian Identity Works. No specific discovery or occurrence dates were provided in the notification letter dated January 20, 2021.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Jan 20, 2021

Filed

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Show 2 more filingsup to 19d gap

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Jan 27 (NH) — a 26-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.