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HackingManufacturingTechnologyManufacturingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsLocationBehaviorMediumContained

GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

May 16, 2022

To disclose

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Affected

4,920state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%
All records for GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY →4 incidents on file

Account takeover notice

GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY notified customers of unauthorized access to their accounts. The filing says: “We believe that unauthorized parties gained access to customer login credentials that were previously compromised on other non-GM sites and then reused those credentials on the customer’s GM account.”

General Motors Company notified the California Attorney General of a data incident affecting 4,920 California residents. Between April 11 and April 29, 2022, unauthorized parties used credentials previously compromised on other sites to access GM online accounts. Affected data included names, emails, addresses, phone numbers, location data, and search history. GM suspended gift card redemptions, forced password resets, and reported the incident to law enforcement.

Incident timeline

Apr 11, 2022

Begins

May 16, 2022

Filed

This filing is one of 3 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Maine State AGMay 10 · first
California State AG+6d · this page

Pattern: first filing May 10 (ME), last May 16 (CA) — a 6-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.