UnknownGovernmentGovernmentCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountHealth (basic)MediumContained

Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 7, 2024

Filed

Dec 5, 2025

To disclose

14 months

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles →2 incidents on file

Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) notified the California AG of unauthorized access to its IT systems identified in October 2024. The investigation, completed in July 2025, confirmed that personal information including SSNs, financial account numbers, and health diagnoses may have been accessed. HACLA engaged forensic experts, notified law enforcement, and is offering 12 months of credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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California clockDiscovered Oct 7, 2024 → Notified Dec 5, 2025424d ✗ CA 60-day late14 months discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 14 months / 424 days

Oct 7, 2024

Begins

Oct 7, 2024

Discovered

Dec 5, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+50 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
norm: housing authority of the city of los angeles

Name: Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
norm: housing authority of the city of los angeles
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Oct 7, 2024
Breach occurred: Oct 7, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 5, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Unknown
Regulator citations: Notified the FBI and other law enforcement agencies

During the incident: Implemented its incident response protocols
Engaged independent computer forensic experts to assist with the investigation
Hired a third-party vendor to review potentially impacted data
Notified the FBI and other law enforcement agencies
Offering twelve (12) months of credit monitoring and restoration services from IDX at no cost
Changes made: Completed the implementation of a new security information management system
Continuing to apply vulnerability patches as they become available
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 months(424 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day late · 424d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Oct 7, 2024
→ Notified: Dec 5, 2025
424d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Oct 7, 2024 → Notified: Dec 5, 2025	424d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day late

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-615212
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 5, 2025
Raw hash: 295847d141e203f01a5a6dade5f17b51cbc4830953b7b646a5d81a1326cf4248

Reporting entityHousing Authority of the City of Los Angeles

Victim entityHousing Authority of the City of Los Angeles

Incidentdiscovered Oct 7, 2024

Stated responseImplemented its incident response protocols

ComplianceCA 60-day late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov