PhysicalProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesTheftCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumActive
Sterling BackCheck
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Full breach record for Sterling BackCheck →On May 29, 2015, a password-protected laptop was stolen from a SterlingBackcheck employee's vehicle. The laptop may have contained a file with names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth of individuals who had applied for employment through SterlingBackcheck clients. The company launched an investigation, notified affected clients, and arranged 24 months of free credit monitoring via AllClear ID for potentially impacted individuals.
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_eb8ff1badd82ddbaWashington State AGfiled 2015-08-11(4d gap)Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-57330
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Aug 7, 2015
- Raw hash
- faf9e383a23e9b035338daafc005fc2f9045ca266e9ba4f46d26aad388d9db82
Reporting entity
- Name
- Sterling BackChecknorm: sterling backcheck
Victim entity
- Name
- Sterling BackChecknorm: sterling backcheck
- Industry
- Professional Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- —
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- PIIIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unknown
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Providing notice of this incident to certain state regulators and consumer reporting agencies, as required
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.