HackingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHEALTH_BASICPIIMediumContained
California Statewide Automated Welfare System
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Full breach record for California Statewide Automated Welfare System →BenefitsCal (California Statewide Automated Welfare System) disclosed that an unauthorized party accessed user accounts using reused passwords obtained from other websites. The incident occurred between March 1, 2023, and February 13, 2024, and was discovered on February 9, 2024. Affected data included names, addresses, SSNs, EBT card numbers, and Medi-Cal IDs. BenefitsCal temporarily inactivated accounts, enforced multi-factor authentication, and reissued EBT cards.
California clockDiscovered Feb 9, 2024 → Notified Mar 26, 202446d ✓ CA 60-day OK8 weeks 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/sb24-583547
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Apr 5, 2024
- Raw hash
- f8eab1ff52b1c11dde97137ccffbf3c0bccac3d8283a940334387c0dfd1b1ec4
Reporting entity
- Name
- California Statewide Automated Welfare Systemnorm: california statewide automated welfare system
Victim entity
- Name
- California Statewide Automated Welfare Systemnorm: california statewide automated welfare system
Incident
- Discovered
- Feb 9, 2024
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Mar 26, 2024
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHEALTH_BASICPII
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
- Threat actor
- External
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(56 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 46d
- 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: Feb 9, 2024→ Notified: Mar 26, 202446d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.