HackingDelayed DiscoveryData ExfiltratedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHEALTH_BASICMediumContained
Korn/Ferry International
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Full breach record for Korn/Ferry International →Korn/Ferry International reported a sophisticated cyber attack discovered in August 2012, affecting a small percentage of files containing names combined with driver's license numbers, SSNs, credit card numbers, or health information. The attack was underway for months before discovery. Korn/Ferry secured its network, worked with federal law enforcement, and offered one year of Experian's Protect My ID Alert service to affected individuals.
California clockDiscovered Aug 1, 2012 → Notified Oct 11, 201271d ✗ CA 60-day late10 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
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/sb24-36705
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Oct 11, 2012
- Raw hash
- bc008f444cdb16e9f8599f43352bfaafcfda309341489bb90e8a81a9977a7b27
Reporting entity
- Name
- Korn/Ferry Internationalnorm: korn ferry
Victim entity
- Name
- Korn/Ferry Internationalnorm: korn ferry
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 1, 2012
- Materiality determined
- Oct 11, 2012
- Notification sent
- Oct 11, 2012
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- asked by federal law enforcement officials, however, to delay disclosure of the existence of the attack
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 10 weeks(71 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 71d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Aug 1, 2012→ Notified: Oct 11, 201271d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.