Source methodology

Implemented official source

Washington Attorney General Data Breach Notifications

One notice submitted to the Attorney General, joined to zero or more source information-type rows

Historical public datasets from August 2015 to present.

Regulator
Washington State Attorney General's Office
Jurisdiction
Washington
Reporting scheme
Washington data breach notification laws
Publication level
Named Notification
Coverage type
Complete Published Dataset
Reporting threshold
The source states that notice to the Attorney General is required when more than 500 Washington residents are affected.
Source population
Notifications affecting Washington residents since July 24, 2015.
Licence state
The dataset has no dataset-specific licence identifier. Data.wa.gov states its content may generally be used free for most purposes unless restrictions are documented.
Rights boundary reviewed
23 July 2026
Redistribution decision
Approved With Conditions
Automated health
Healthy
Snapshot completeness
Complete
Update checkpoint
Complete
Reviewed record floor
500
Accepted records
1,675
Rejected records
0
Bounded retrieval limit
10,000
Source revision
1791165608:1791165611
Snapshot checksum
ef0e55d44d27857f06b13894aec49375b9fc9854245b5428fd3db91cb76e323f
Latest update attempt
5 Oct 2026
Last successful update
5 Oct 2026

Limitations

  • The named entity is the notifier and is nearly always the data owner, not necessarily the entity where the event occurred.
  • Affected counts may be estimated.
  • Dataset-specific licence metadata is absent and requires ongoing review.

Correction process

Check the current Socrata row and dataset metadata; preserve the notifying-entity role.

Attribution

Washington State Attorney General's Office Consumer Protection Division