HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesData ExfiltratedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

Mindlance, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 29, 2017

Filed

Jan 19, 2018

To disclose

21 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Mindlance, Inc. →

Mindlance, Inc. notified employees that confidential information, including names and Social Security numbers, was stolen on December 28, 2017, and emailed to employees on December 29, 2017. The company quarantined the emails, notified law enforcement, and offered one year of identity protection services through Experian. A review of policies and procedures was initiated.

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California clockDiscovered Dec 29, 2017 → Notified Jan 19, 201821d ✓ CA 60-day OK21 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 21 days

Dec 28, 2017

Begins

Dec 29, 2017

Discovered

Jan 19, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

16 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_03692cb42c0c5b822018-01-19Candidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_1bacf7dcf0f4d20b2018-01-19Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_513fbeadb059a1522018-01-22 · +3dVerified

Name: Mindlance, Inc.
norm: mindlance

Name: Mindlance, Inc.
norm: mindlance
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 29, 2017
Breach occurred: Dec 28, 2017
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 19, 2018
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel

During the incident: Notified law enforcement about this incident
Quarantined the e-mails and restricted access to senior management responsible for responding to this incident
Offering one year of identity protection services at no cost to you through Experian
Changes made: Conducting a thorough review of its current policies and procedures
Evaluate what additional steps are needed to enhance the strong protections we already have in place for safeguarding personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 days(21 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 21d
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: Dec 29, 2017
→ Notified: Jan 19, 2018
21d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Dec 29, 2017 → Notified: Jan 19, 2018	21d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Montana State AGJan 19 · first

New Hampshire State AGJan 19 · first

California State AGJan 19 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+3d

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/sb24-132953
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 19, 2018
Raw hash: cbd41ba76c04173d822310be8498f7f240314dd65c140c390c5583e0b81a9c1d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMindlance, Inc.

Victim entityMindlance, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Dec 29, 2017

Stated responseNotified law enforcement about this incident

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov