Social EngineeringPhishingTargetedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumContained
Seagate US LLC
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Full breach record for Seagate US LLC →Seagate US, LLC disclosed a targeted phishing email incident on March 1, 2016, where employees in HR and Payroll were tricked into sending 2015 W-2 forms. The breach exposed names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and earnings of Seagate and affiliate employees. The company notified the IRS and federal law enforcement, offered two years of identity protection via Experian, and enhanced phishing training.
California clockDiscovered Mar 1, 2016 → Notified Mar 9, 20168d ✓ CA 60-day OK8 days discovery → filing
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_69776803af49778fMontana State AGfiled 2016-03-09Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-60402
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Mar 9, 2016
- Raw hash
- 031cb1b630becdef92401840daa9657b1ad7311746aa1b9385c0bd29e18a4eee
Reporting entity
- Name
- Seagate US LLCnorm: seagate us
Victim entity
- Name
- Seagate US LLCnorm: seagate us
Incident
- Discovered
- Mar 1, 2016
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Mar 9, 2016
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified the IRS and federal law enforcement
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 days(8 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 8d
- 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: Mar 1, 2016→ Notified: Mar 9, 20168d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.