PhysicalManufacturingManufacturingTheftEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

ACCO ENGINEERED SYSTEMS, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 20, 2019

Filed

Dec 26, 2019

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for ACCO ENGINEERED SYSTEMS, INC. →

ACCO Engineered Systems, Inc. reported the theft of an employee's company laptop and mobile phone on November 20, 2019. The company remotely wiped the phone but could not confirm the data on the laptop. Potential exposure included names, Social Security numbers, and direct deposit bank account information. ACCO offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity restoration services.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 36 days

Nov 20, 2019

Begins

Nov 20, 2019

Discovered

Dec 26, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: ACCO ENGINEERED SYSTEMS, INC.
norm: acco engineered

Name: ACCO ENGINEERED SYSTEMS, INC.
norm: acco engineered
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Nov 20, 2019
Breach occurred: Nov 20, 2019
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: Notifying regulatory authorities of this incident

During the incident: Remotely deleted all information from the mobile phone
Launched an investigation into the nature and scope of the event
Notifying regulatory authorities of this incident
Offering twelve (12) months of complimentary credit monitoring, fraud consultation, and identity theft restoration services through TransUnion
Changes made: Reviewing existing policies and procedures
Implementing additional safeguards to further secure devices and the information stored therein
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(36 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/sb24-185440
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 26, 2019
Raw hash: 613de919f5ee785f3725fc10ec74515dc1128fb8aa7c5e1705157f21ab20244d

Reporting entityACCO ENGINEERED SYSTEMS, INC.

Victim entityACCO ENGINEERED SYSTEMS, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Nov 20, 2019

Stated responseRemotely deleted all information from the mobile phone

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov