PhysicalTheftTamperingEmployee Data InvolvedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIPHIIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHEALTH_BASICEMPLOYMENTMINORMediumContained
California Department of Developmental Services
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Full breach record for California Department of Developmental Services →On February 11, 2018, unknown persons broke into the California Department of Developmental Services offices in Sacramento, ransacking files and starting a fire. Personal information (including SSNs and financial records) and Protected Health Information (PHI) of employees, job applicants, and parents of minors were potentially compromised. Twelve encrypted laptops were stolen, but data was inaccessible. The network was not breached.
California clockDiscovered Feb 11, 2018 → Notified Apr 6, 201854d ✓ 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/sb24-135099
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Apr 6, 2018
- Raw hash
- b9f93fc64770dbf72ef7e8b6e96b292e9d71337fe7d3323d683c8605160b7fe4
Reporting entity
- Name
- California Department of Developmental Servicesnorm: california department of developmental
- Domain
- dds.ca.gov
Victim entity
- Name
- California Department of Developmental Servicesnorm: california department of developmental
- Domain
- dds.ca.gov
Incident
- Discovered
- Feb 11, 2018
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Apr 6, 2018
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- PIIPHIIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHEALTH_BASICEMPLOYMENTMINOR
- Attack vector
- Unknown
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified California Attorney General
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(54 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 54d
- 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 11, 2018→ Notified: Apr 6, 201854d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.