🌲Washington State AG
Clustered 4 filings across 4 jurisdictions · filing window Jun 8, 2017 → Jun 9, 2017. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_b9842d74d0f34f88 · merge_method deterministic · confidence 100%
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
CA MT OR WA
Time between earliest and latest filing
Not recorded for this incident
Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.
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per-filing reported counts
State AGs report only their own residents; bars show per-filing counts.
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Apr 21, 2017
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Apr 21, 2017
Reported by CALIFORNIA AG filing
Apr 26, 2017
Reported by WASHINGTON AG, OREGON AG filings
About this clustering
DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.
Washington State University, a education sector entity reported a theft or mistake incident to the Washington Attorney General. The organization became aware of the incident on 2017-04-26 and filed notice on 2017-06-08. 769,088 Washington residents were affected. 43 days elapsed between awareness and notification.
Affected (this filing): 769,088
Washington State University reported the theft of a locked safe containing a hard drive on April 21, 2017. The drive contained unencrypted personal information (names, addresses) of survey participants, including minors, from the Social & Economic Sciences Research Center. The university notified law enforcement, retained forensic investigators, and offered credit monitoring to affected individuals. No evidence of data misuse was found.
Washington State University reported a data breach to the Montana Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2017-06-09. The breach occurred from 4/21/2017 to 4/26/2017. 6,498 Montana residents were affected.
Affected (this filing): 6,498
Washington State University reported a data breach to the Oregon Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2017-06-09. The breach occurred during 4/21/2017 - 4/21/2017. The breach was discovered on 4/26/2017. 1,118,135 individuals were affected. Notice was sent on 6/9/2017.
Affected (this filing): 1,118,135