MisuseFinancial ServicesFinanceData MishandlingCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

SORRENTO PACIFIC FINANCIAL, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 9, 2015

Filed

Dec 14, 2015

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for SORRENTO PACIFIC FINANCIAL, LLC →2 incidents on file

Sorrento Pacific Financial, LLC notified the California Attorney General that personal information of clients, beneficiaries, and minors may have been stolen by a former investment representative. The company learned of the incident on November 9, 2015. Affected data includes names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, email addresses, and Social Security numbers. The company launched an investigation and is offering one year of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services via Experian to impacted individuals.

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California clockDiscovered Nov 9, 2015 → Notified Nov 27, 201518d ✓ CA 60-day OK5 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 35 days

Nov 9, 2015

Discovered

Dec 14, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

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

Name: SORRENTO PACIFIC FINANCIAL, LLC
norm: sorrento pacific financial

Name: SORRENTO PACIFIC FINANCIAL, LLC
norm: sorrento pacific financial
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 9, 2015
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 27, 2015
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Insider
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Incident is currently under investigation with the appropriate authorities
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Launched an investigation to determine what information may have been stolen
Providing notice of this incident to impacted individuals
Providing information on how to protect against identity theft and fraud
Offering complimentary access to one free year of credit monitoring and identity restoration services with Family Secure from Experian to minors
Offering complimentary access to one free year of credit monitoring and identity restoration services with Experian’s ProtectMyID ELITE product to individuals
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(35 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 18d
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: Nov 9, 2015
→ Notified: Nov 27, 2015
18d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Nov 9, 2015 → Notified: Nov 27, 2015	18d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

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/sb24-59275
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 14, 2015
Raw hash: 2c4477a8afa39dbb0560b2eb41625a4d97c7315c4ac5008fdd581dd675b1ff7c

Reporting entitySORRENTO PACIFIC FINANCIAL, LLC

Victim entitySORRENTO PACIFIC FINANCIAL, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Nov 9, 2015

Stated responseLaunched an investigation to determine what information may have been stolen

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov