HackingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTEMPLOYMENTMediumContained
TALX
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Full breach record for TALX →TALX Corporation, a subsidiary of Equifax, disclosed a data security incident affecting employee payroll portals. Unauthorized third parties accessed accounts between January 4, 2016, and March 29, 2017, by answering personal questions to reset PINs. Affected data included W-2/1095-C forms, SSNs, names, addresses, and financial info. TALX notified law enforcement and the IRS, reset credentials, and provided 24 months of identity protection via AllClearID.
California clockDiscovered Mar 29, 2017 → Notified May 10, 201742d ✓ CA 60-day OK8 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/sb24-69058
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- May 23, 2017
- Raw hash
- 0cd983aae515d45b8e0655fb7f46394fab9c4c84a79749c800cec2d324afda30
Reporting entity
- Name
- TALXnorm: talx
Victim entity
- Name
- TALXnorm: talx
Incident
- Discovered
- Mar 29, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- May 10, 2017
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTEMPLOYMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified federal law enforcement, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and state tax authorities
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(55 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 42d
- 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: Mar 29, 2017→ Notified: May 10, 201742d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.