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
1,597
Rejected records
0
Bounded retrieval limit
10,000
Source revision
1784858405:1784858407
Snapshot checksum
7a6ddb92c4beabf4382ee8b7b201abc23d6325f478770f0770f7d49bcd29ad1c
Latest update attempt
24 July 2026
Last successful update
24 July 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