AccidentalMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumResolved
BankCard USA Merchant Services, Inc
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Full breach record for BankCard USA Merchant Services, Inc →TSYS Merchant Solutions inadvertently copied a partner bank representative on an email containing a TIN Mismatch file for merchants. The file included Merchant Identification Numbers, merchant names, and Tax Identification Numbers (or SSNs). The bank representative immediately deleted the file. TSYS notified affected merchants on November 29, 2016, regarding the incident that occurred on November 14, 2016.
California clockDiscovered Nov 14, 2016 → Notified Nov 29, 201615d ✓ CA 60-day OK21 days discovery → filing
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-65177
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Dec 5, 2016
- Raw hash
- 1abde27018ac1af487d3d863fa3a9fda4450747af3fb806f811a407e274fa00a
Reporting entity
- Name
- BankCard USA Merchant Services, Incnorm: bankcard usa merchant
Victim entity
- Name
- BankCard USA Merchant Services, Incnorm: bankcard usa merchant
Incident
- Discovered
- Nov 14, 2016
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Nov 29, 2016
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unknown
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 21 days(21 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 15d
- 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: Nov 14, 2016→ Notified: Nov 29, 201615d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.