HackingCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumContained
Equity Trust Company
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Full breach record for Equity Trust Company →Equity Trust Company notified customers that an unauthorized third party breached its security system at the end of January 2013. Forensic analysis by KPMG confirmed unauthorized viewing access to customer information, including names, addresses, and social security numbers, but found no evidence that data was acquired, copied, or removed. The company blocked intrusions, restricted international access, and notified the FBI.
California clockDiscovered Jan 31, 2013 → Notified Apr 15, 201374d ✗ CA 60-day late14 weeks discovery → filing
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-41731
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- May 8, 2013
- Raw hash
- 54fa7a6bcc08b24b1d07fbcf56f72cd1880bf786f83308e2c9a8c4856ad1aefc
Reporting entity
- Name
- Equity Trust Companynorm: equity trust
- Domain
- trustetc.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Equity Trust Companynorm: equity trust
- Domain
- trustetc.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Jan 31, 2013
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Apr 15, 2013
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified the Federal Bureau of InvestigationFiled a Suspicious Activity Report
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 14 weeks(97 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 74d
- 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: Jan 31, 2013→ Notified: Apr 15, 201374d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.