HackingEmployee Data InvolvedTargetedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTEMPLOYMENTMediumContained
BELDEN INC.
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Full breach record for BELDEN INC. →Belden Inc. detected unusual activity on company servers on November 12, 2020. An external party accessed servers containing personal information of current and former employees on or about November 15, 2020. Affected data included names, birthdates, SSNs, bank account info (for North American employees), home addresses, emails, and employment info. Belden engaged forensic experts, notified FBI/DHS, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.
California clockDiscovered Nov 12, 2020 → Notified Nov 24, 202012d ✓ CA 60-day OK5 weeks discovery → filing
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_189033c89f5af718Maine State AGfiled 2020-12-14Candidate
- bd_191a2b2e9f0f7348Oregon State AGfiled 2020-12-14Verified
- bd_a2dfc0946b798facCalifornia State AGfiled 2020-12-14Candidate
- bd_b0003efc0d9de31dMontana State AGfiled 2020-12-14Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-197168
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Dec 14, 2020
- Raw hash
- e14067e44cfc35c04999abfef5ce93540786ea3453dc38eebcc49840c0afe226
Reporting entity
- Name
- BELDEN INC.norm: belden
- Domain
- belden.com
Victim entity
- Name
- BELDEN INC.norm: belden
- Domain
- belden.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Nov 12, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Nov 24, 2020
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTEMPLOYMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Working with regulatory and law enforcement officials, including the F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 5 weeks(32 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 12d
- 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: Nov 12, 2020→ Notified: Nov 24, 202012d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.