MalwareRansomwareData EncryptedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentFinancial accountMediumContained

Ascentium Corp.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 24, 2020

Filed

Apr 13, 2021

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

64%

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.

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California clockDiscovered Dec 24, 2020 → Notified Feb 3, 202141d ✓ CA 60-day OK16 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 110 days

Dec 24, 2020

Begins

Dec 24, 2020

Discovered

Apr 13, 2021

Filed

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

Montana State AGbd_220cfd22a68503132021-02-12 · +60dCandidate

Name: Ascentium Corp.
norm: ascentium

Name: Ascentium Corp.
norm: ascentium
Also named: Ascentium Corporationdba oflegal entity
SMITHdba oftrade name

Discovered: Dec 24, 2020
Breach occurred: Dec 24, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 3, 2021
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmploymentFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Took the servers upon which ransomware was installed offline that same day
Engaged its third-party IT Security vendor to assist in assessing potential exposure and implementing mitigation strategies
Offering a complimentary two-year membership to Equifax, which provides credit monitoring for three major credit monitoring bureaus, protection of your personal information and identity theft insurance
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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, 2021
41d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Dec 24, 2020 → Notified: Feb 3, 2021	41d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Montana State AGFeb 12 · first

California State AG+60d · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 12 (MT), last Apr 13 (CA) — a 60-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/sb24-539889
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

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAscentium Corp.

Victim entityAscentium Corp.

Incidentdiscovered Dec 24, 2020

Stated responseTook the servers upon which ransomware was installed offline that same day

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov