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
- 1,653
- Rejected records
- 0
- Bounded retrieval limit
- 10,000
- Source revision
- 1788746416:1788746418
- Snapshot checksum
- 512e1426a5f2c05d7ef242b9e6162d8cf238cdf91f7afd1a85cc173b21b02e52
- Latest update attempt
- 7 Sept 2026
- Last successful update
- 7 Sept 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