AccidentalMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENTMediumResolved
QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED
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Full breach record for QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED →On October 29, 2021, Quest Diagnostics experienced an inadvertent email misdelivery where an employee sent a spreadsheet containing personal information of current and former employees to internal distribution lists. The data included names, Social Security Numbers, employee ID numbers, and for some, personal email addresses. The company recalled the email, removed it from systems, and offered 12 months of identity monitoring.
California clockDiscovered Oct 29, 2021 → Notified Nov 16, 202118d ✓ CA 60-day OK18 days discovery → filing
This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_1bb2823f1487fb2cMontana State AGfiled 2021-11-16Candidate
- bd_64f81844de618f51Maine State AGfiled 2021-11-16Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-547623
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Nov 16, 2021
- Raw hash
- 2402a2f6500f0575a0264f107013f45e567b7c41244f89b0ff82269dd0d091f0
Reporting entity
- Name
- QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATEDnorm: quest diagnostics
Victim entity
- Name
- QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATEDnorm: quest diagnostics
Incident
- Discovered
- Oct 29, 2021
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Nov 16, 2021
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENT
- Attack vector
- Unknown
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 18 days(18 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 18d
- 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: Oct 29, 2021→ Notified: Nov 16, 202118d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.