HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Employee Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Performant Financial Corporation

bd_1003aa167275d82e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 14, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

78%

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Performant Financial Corporation notified affected individuals of a breach at its external auditor, Campbell Taylor & Company (C&T). An unauthorized individual accessed a C&T network drive between January 27 and February 2, 2017, which contained Performant's 401K audit files. Potentially exposed data includes employee names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. C&T notified law enforcement and regulators; Performant offered 12 months of free identity protection through AllClearID.

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Incident timeline

Jan 27, 2017

Begins

Aug 14, 2017

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Oregon State AGbd_3875692ae9736a192017-08-14Candidate

Name: Performant Financial Corporation
norm: performant financial

Name: Performant Financial Corporation
norm: performant financial
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Jan 27, 2017 – Feb 2, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: C&T notified the Federal Bureau of InvestigationC&T notified the Internal Revenue ServiceC&T notified the California Franchise Tax BoardC&T notified all three nationwide credit bureausC&T notified relevant state agencies
Third party: via Campbell Taylor & Company

During the incident: Performant undertook its own investigation to determine what specific information may have been compromised
Performant attempted multiple times to obtain specific answers and definitive records from C&T
Performant engaged in a detailed review of Company's specific files stored on the C&T network drive that was compromised
Ensuring that affected individuals receive 12 months of complimentary identity protection services through AllClearID
Changes made: C&T reviewed its policies and procedures and put certain new controls in place to prevent an incident like this one from happening again
Performant is reviewing the modifications to C&T's practices to ensure the security of Performant's information in engagements with C&T
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Oregon State AGAug 14 · first

California State AGAug 14 · first · this page

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/sb24-101052
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 14, 2017
Raw hash: 3316ee0c1a2d044335f9573ac631c477028f7cb8ffd350b9dd0b70c73b9259d2

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPerformant Financial Corporation

Victim entityPerformant Financial Corporation

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responsePerformant undertook its own investigation to determine what specific information may have been compromised

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov