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PhysicalManufacturingManufacturingTheftEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentMediumContained

GRAFTECH INTERNATIONAL LTD.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Jan 20, 2011

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%
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CorrectionPublished Oct 10, 2026

The New Hampshire Department of Justice lists this notice on 2010-01-20. The notice letter is dated January 20, 2011, so we publish 2011-01-20 as the date it was filed.

Read their full statement

GrafTech International Holdings Inc. reported the theft of a company laptop in Monterrey, Mexico, on January 7, 2011. The laptop contained personal information of U.S.-based employees, including names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, and salary information. One New Hampshire resident was affected. The company filed a police report and offered two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft resolution services to affected U.S. employees. No evidence of data misuse was found.

Incident timeline

Jan 7, 2011

Begins

Jan 20, 2011

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

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.