HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceEmployee Data InvolvedCredentialsLowContained

Bank of the West

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Dec 19, 2013

Filed

Feb 5, 2014

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Bank of the West →10 incidents on file

Bank of the West discovered on December 19, 2013, that a retired internet job application server had been illegally accessed. Unauthorized users may have obtained user names and passwords created to access the site. The bank secured the servers, established additional security measures, and cooperated with law enforcement. Affected individuals were offered one year of free identity monitoring.

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California clockDiscovered Dec 19, 2013 → Notified Feb 6, 201449d ✓ CA 60-day OK7 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 48 days

Dec 19, 2013

Discovered

Feb 5, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_b25a200ad1ae3d442014-02-05Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_305564051e1547c72014-02-06 · +1dVerified

Name: Bank of the West
norm: bank of the west

Name: Bank of the West
norm: bank of the west
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 19, 2013
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 6, 2014
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External

During the incident: Secured the servers involved
Established additional security measures
Cooperating with law enforcement in their investigation
Changes made: Offered one year of free identity monitoring through First Watch ID
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(48 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 49d
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 19, 2013
→ Notified: Feb 6, 2014
49d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Dec 19, 2013 → Notified: Feb 6, 2014	49d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGFeb 5 · first

California State AGFeb 5 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

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/sb24-44030
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 5, 2014
Raw hash: 56b30dd2e4628a9b13d6d858d527187881cb6d70d6ad1a192e7085e0d4d1e797

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBank of the West

Victim entityBank of the West

Incidentdiscovered Dec 19, 2013

Stated responseSecured the servers involved

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov