Social EngineeringPhishingData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHEALTH_BASICPHIHighContained
Volt Information Sciences, Inc.
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Full breach record for Volt Information Sciences, Inc. →Volt Information Sciences, Inc. reported a data breach affecting 4,687 California residents. Between August 6 and October 4, 2018, an unknown actor gained unauthorized access to employee email accounts and used them to send phishing emails. Affected data included names, SSNs, driver's license numbers, passport numbers, credit/debit card info, and medical/health insurance information. Volt secured accounts, retained forensic investigators, and offered one year of credit monitoring via Kroll to affected individuals starting February 15, 2019.
California clockDiscovered Oct 16, 2018 → Notified Feb 15, 2019122d ✗ CA 60-day late17 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.Confirmed4,687 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-144774
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Feb 15, 2019
- Raw hash
- adebdb91fc393935f50bb6f188acfc46692da4c5dd3a1992c6a58cb9f443cc7f
Reporting entity
- Name
- Volt Information Sciences, Inc.norm: volt information sciences
Victim entity
- Name
- Volt Information Sciences, Inc.norm: volt information sciences
Incident
- Discovered
- Oct 16, 2018
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Feb 15, 2019
- Affected individuals
- 4,687
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHEALTH_BASICPHI
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Providing notice to other state regulators as required by law
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 17 weeks(122 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 122d
- 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: Oct 16, 2018→ Notified: Feb 15, 2019122d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.