MalwareRansomwareData EncryptedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumContained
Ascentium Corp.
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Full breach record for Ascentium Corp. →Ascentium Corporation dba SMITH experienced a ransomware attack on December 24, 2020, affecting servers containing legacy employee personal identifying information, including names, addresses, SSNs, driver's license numbers, and payroll data. The company took affected servers offline immediately and engaged third-party IT security vendors. Affected individuals were offered two years of complimentary credit monitoring through Equifax.
California clockDiscovered Dec 24, 2020 → Notified Feb 3, 202141d ✓ CA 60-day OK16 weeks discovery → filing
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_220cfd22a6850313Montana State AGfiled 2021-02-12(60d gap)Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-539889
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Apr 13, 2021
- Raw hash
- 8108b8238731c1048f52a341bb0b7ea0976f0c2948049e952e8a1a016ceb6707
Reporting entity
- Name
- Ascentium Corp.norm: ascentium
Victim entity
- Name
- Ascentium Corp.norm: ascentium
Incident
- Discovered
- Dec 24, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Feb 3, 2021
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Ransomware
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 16 weeks(110 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 41d
- 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 24, 2020→ Notified: Feb 3, 202141d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.