Data Breach Notification Monitor - [Washington State]

What does US Data Breach Notification Monitor do?

US Data Breach Notification Monitor turns official US state data breach notification registries into one clean, structured dataset — one row per breach incident. Version 1 covers Washington State, sourced directly from the Washington State Attorney General's open-data breach dataset. Think of it as a breach-data API alternative: no manual portal-checking, no copy-paste.

More states (Texas, Massachusetts, and others) are on the roadmap — the Actor is built as a multi-state aggregator.

Why use US Data Breach Notification Monitor?

Breach notifications are public, but they live on a different portal in every state, in different formats. This Actor normalizes them so you can:

• 🎯 Generate sales leads — a company that just disclosed a breach is a warm lead for security, insurance, and legal services.
• 🛡️ Underwrite cyber risk — feed structured incident history into your risk models.
• 🔍 Power threat intelligence & research — track breach causes, industries, and volumes over time.
• 🔔 Monitor — schedule daily runs and receive only the newly-reported breaches.

Running on Apify means you get scheduling, a REST API, proxy rotation, monitoring, and integrations with 5,000+ tools out of the box.

What data can it extract?

Field	Type	Description
organizationName	text	The breached organization
industry	text	Industry / sector
affectedResidents	number	State residents affected
reportedDate	date	Date reported to the Attorney General
discoveredDate	date	Date the breach was discovered
breachStart / breachEnd	date	Breach time window
cause	text	Cause (e.g. cyberattack)
attackType	text	Attack type (e.g. ransomware)
state	text	Source state (WA)
sourceUrl	link	Source dataset

How to scrape US state data breach notifications

1. (Optional) Set Since date to only get breaches reported on or after a date.
2. (Optional) Set Minimum residents affected or Max items.
3. For monitoring, enable Only new since last run and attach a Schedule (e.g. daily).
4. Click Start, then download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

How much will it cost?

See the pricing shown on this page for exact per-result / per-run figures.

Input

See the Input tab for all options: states, sinceDate, minAffected, maxItems, onlyNew, and includeRaw. Every field is optional — the defaults return the full Washington dataset.

Output

You can download the dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML. Example:

[
  {
    "state": "WA",
    "organizationName": "Automatic Funds Transfer Services Inc.",
    "industry": "Finance and Insurance",
    "affectedResidents": 695,
    "reportedDate": "2021-02-20T00:00:00.000Z",
    "discoveredDate": "2021-02-08T00:00:00.000Z",
    "breachStart": "2021-02-04T00:00:00.000Z",
    "breachEnd": "2021-02-08T00:00:00.000Z",
    "cause": "Cyberattack",
    "attackType": "Ransomware",
    "sourceRecordId": "0001",
    "sourceUrl": "https://data.wa.gov/d/sb4j-ca4h",
    "ingestedAt": "2026-08-04T12:00:00.000Z"
  }
]

FAQ, disclaimer & support

Is this legal and ethical? This Actor only reads official government breach-notification records that are published for public transparency. It does not access private accounts or bypass any authentication.

Our Actors are ethical and do not extract private personal data — they only process information that authorities have chosen to publish publicly. Your results may still contain information about organizations. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other laws worldwide; you should not use results to process personal data without a legitimate reason. If you are unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers.

Which states are covered? v1: Washington. Texas, Massachusetts, and more public-list states are planned.

Found a bug or want a state added? Use the Issues tab. For programmatic access, see the API tab.