PhysicalProfessional ServicesTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Hamilton Zanze & Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 29, 2017

Filed

Jul 27, 2017

To disclose

28 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Hamilton Zanze & Company →

Hamilton Zanze & Company reported the theft of an employee's password-protected laptop from a vehicle on June 29, 2017. The laptop potentially contained client information including names, dates of birth, phone numbers, addresses, and Social Security numbers. The company disabled credentials, wiped the laptop remotely, and offered 24 months of identity repair and credit monitoring to affected individuals. No evidence of data access was found.

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California clockDiscovered Jun 29, 2017 → Notified Jul 27, 201728d ✓ CA 60-day OK28 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 28 days

Jun 29, 2017

Begins

Jun 29, 2017

Discovered

Jul 27, 2017

Filed

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

Montana State AGbd_8ec8f19b1a3af80f2017-07-25 · +2dCandidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_bcb51b570a2b4e952017-07-25 · +2dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_c39ec1f48eba33cd2017-07-25 · +2dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_49c923261e6c75b42017-08-08 · +12dCandidate

Name: Hamilton Zanze & Company
norm: hamilton zanze
Domain: hamiltonzanze.com

Name: Hamilton Zanze & Company
norm: hamilton zanze
Domain: hamiltonzanze.com

Discovered: Jun 29, 2017
Breach occurred: Jun 29, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 27, 2017
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified all applicable state agencies

During the incident: Disabled employee's network and all other IT credentials
Instructed laptop to automatically wipe its contents upon connecting to the internet
Reported the incident to the police
Notified all applicable state agencies and the three credit bureaus
Provided 24 months of complimentary identity repair
Provided 24 months of complimentary credit monitoring
Changes made: Implemented additional safeguards to further minimize the risk of any data incident in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 28 days(28 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 28d
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: Jun 29, 2017
→ Notified: Jul 27, 2017
28d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jun 29, 2017 → Notified: Jul 27, 2017	28d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

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Montana State AGJul 25 · first

New Hampshire State AGJul 25 · first

Massachusetts State AGJul 25 · first

California State AG+2d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+14d

Pattern: first filing Jul 25 (MT), last Aug 8 (MA) — a 14-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/sb24-100609
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 27, 2017
Raw hash: 7f73bc6968830b3097c1e1cc8478a1bf4562a1e5e4ad78858b5a883516e1d2df

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHamilton Zanze & Company

Victim entityHamilton Zanze & Company

Incidentdiscovered Jun 29, 2017

Stated responseDisabled employee's network and all other IT credentials

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov