HackingGovernmentGovernmentStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedFinancial accountIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

The Public School and Education Employees Retirement Systems

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 11, 2021

Filed

Oct 14, 2021

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

532state residents only

Confidence

71%

Full breach record for The Public School and Education Employees Retirement Systems →

The Public School and Education Employees Retirement Systems reported unauthorized access to its systems on September 11, 2021. The incident affected 532 Washington residents. The organization notified the Washington Attorney General on October 14, 2021, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring services to affected individuals.

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

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 33 days

Sep 11, 2021

Begins

Sep 11, 2021

Discovered

Oct 14, 2021

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed532 affectedView incident

Name: The Public School and Education Employees Retirement Systems
norm: the public school and education employees retirement

Name: The Public School and Education Employees Retirement Systems
norm: the public school and education employees retirement
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Sep 11, 2021
Breach occurred: Sep 11, 2021
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 14, 2021
Affected individuals: 532state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberFinancial account numberDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Unauthorized Access
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 0dexposure 0d
WA-stated discovery: Found while ongoingContained same day
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Filed notification with Washington Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Offered 24 months of Experian IdentityWorks membership
Provided information on placing fraud alerts with credit reporting agencies
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: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

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/BreachA2134.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 14, 2021
Raw hash: 8a8fcff40a20808b00d31e8677272aaa5402f6d69d261f5de9741e51530164c8

Reporting entityThe Public School and Education Employees Retirement Systems

Victim entityThe Public School and Education Employees Retirement Systems

Incidentdiscovered Sep 11, 2021

Stated responseOffered 24 months of Experian IdentityWorks membership

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com