HackingStolen CredentialsDelayed DiscoveryIDENTITY_BASICLowContained
SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc.
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Full breach record for SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc. →SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc. notified applicants that suspicious activity on its server on Dec 18, 2020 may have exposed names. The company engaged cyber experts and offered IDX identity monitoring services.
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_27e97a822e6e1362Washington State AGfiled 2021-08-24(1d gap)Candidate
- bd_bb3c6553e769b6d4Montana State AGfiled 2021-08-24(1d gap)Verified
- bd_050d1847cd215db9California State AGfiled 2021-08-27(2d gap)Verified
- bd_79b8e613fe4dbbffMaine State AGfiled 2021-08-27(2d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2021/SmartStart.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Aug 25, 2021
- Raw hash
- 3bcd7e2fcc290aa1ef40b4e19185ac5f5e02d23b0e90e094ccd3fcd4a31040f5
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_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 36 weeks(250 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.