HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedEducationIdentity (basic)PIIMediumContained

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 16, 2020

Filed

Aug 7, 2020

To disclose

22 days

Affected

1,122state residents only

Confidence

71%

Full breach record for Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences →

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences reported a third-party data breach involving its Blackbaud alumni/donor database. Unauthorized access occurred between Feb-May 2020; discovered July 16, 2020. 1,122 WA residents notified Aug 7, 2020. Data exposed: names, DOBs, student IDs. No financial/SSN data compromised.

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Washington clock✓ WA AG ≤30d22 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 160 days

discovery → filing · 22 days

Feb 7, 2020

Begins

Jul 16, 2020

Discovered

Aug 7, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,122 affectedView incident

Name: Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences
norm: pacific northwest university of health sciences
Domain: pnwu.edu

Name: Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences
norm: pacific northwest university of health sciences
Domain: pnwu.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jul 16, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 7, 2020 – May 20, 2020
Undetected for: 160 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 7, 2020
Affected individuals: 1,122state-resident count only
Data types: EducationIdentity (basic)PII
Data elements: NameDate of birthStudent ID number
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 100-199dexposure 100-199d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Washington Attorney General's Office
Third party: via Blackbaud
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Notified law enforcement officials
Hired a third-party team of experts to monitor for data exfiltration
Removed unnecessary personal identifiable information across all university systems
Changes made: Ensuring personal identifiable information that is not necessary is removed across all university systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 days(22 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/BreachM10212.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 7, 2020
Raw hash: 9d1205f68a9b99404bedd990fd08f6da03a8b21e86e19ecc05d9893de7cbb56a

Reporting entityPacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Victim entityPacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Incidentdiscovered Jul 16, 2020

Stated responseNotified law enforcement officials

ComplianceWA AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com