UnknownCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumContained
SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc.
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Full breach record for SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc. →SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc. notified the California AG of a data security incident. The breach occurred on May 13, 2020, but suspicious activity was not identified until December 18, 2020. An investigation concluded on August 4, 2021, that names and Social Security numbers may have been accessed. The company offered identity monitoring services to affected individuals.
California clockDiscovered Dec 18, 2020 → Notified Aug 24, 2021249d ✗ CA 60-day late36 weeks discovery → filing
This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_79b8e613fe4dbbffMaine State AGfiled 2021-08-27Verified
- bd_0db3e2cd96640c93South Carolina State AGfiled 2021-08-25(2d gap)Verified
- bd_27e97a822e6e1362Washington State AGfiled 2021-08-24(3d gap)Candidate
- bd_bb3c6553e769b6d4Montana State AGfiled 2021-08-24(3d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-544349
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Aug 27, 2021
- Raw hash
- 225349fee81930e939a8e8ea291df5e62b87e739afb84b809693aa7c42b54325
Reporting entity
- Name
- SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc.norm: smartstart employment screening
Victim entity
- Name
- SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc.norm: smartstart employment screening
Incident
- Discovered
- Dec 18, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Aug 24, 2021
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unknown
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 36 weeks(252 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 249d
- 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: Dec 18, 2020→ Notified: Aug 24, 2021249d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.