PhysicalLossCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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Full breach record for UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA →University of Southern California (USC) notified individuals on April 26, 2022, regarding a data security incident occurring on September 28, 2021. A professor lost an external hard drive containing student academic information, including grade sheets and personal data. USC investigated, confirmed the loss, and provided complimentary identity theft protection services through IDX to affected individuals. No evidence of misuse was found.
California clockDiscovered Oct 1, 2021 → Notified Apr 26, 2022207d ✗ CA 60-day late31 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_06e865c633561db8New Hampshire State AGfiled 2022-05-06(1d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-553141
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- May 5, 2022
- Raw hash
- 10cabcb75aeb011a9aece30213beb6ef8ab245efeb31dd5815cb808aeb84b65f
Reporting entity
- Name
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAnorm: university of southern california
Victim entity
- Name
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAnorm: university of southern california
Incident
- Discovered
- Oct 1, 2021
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Apr 26, 2022
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- PIIIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unknown
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 31 weeks(216 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 207d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Oct 1, 2021→ Notified: Apr 26, 2022207d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.