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Southwest Airlines Co.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 22, 2018

Filed

Apr 20, 2018

To disclose

29 days

Affected

36,485

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

95%
Full breach record for Southwest Airlines Co. →4 incidents on file

Southwest Airlines co. reported a data breach to the Oregon Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2018-04-20. The breach occurred during 10/1/2017 - 12/22/2017. The breach was discovered on 3/22/2018. 36,485 individuals were affected. Notice was sent on 4/20/2018.

Oregon clock✓ OR AG ≤45d29 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.

Incident timeline

undetected · 172 days
discovery → filing · 29 days

Oct 1, 2017

Begins

Mar 22, 2018

Discovered

Apr 20, 2018

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Part of Orbitz Worldwide, LLC supply-chain incident (2018) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Oregon State AGApr 20 · first · this page
New Hampshire State AG+49d

Pattern: first filing Apr 20 (OR), last Jun 8 (NH) — a 49-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.