AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

KDW Automotive

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 23, 2019

Filed

Apr 20, 2020

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for KDW Automotive →

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., acting as service provider for KDW Automotive's 401K plan, mistakenly sent an email containing personal information (name and SSN) to unintended recipients on November 6, 2019. The error was discovered on December 23, 2019. Recipients confirmed deletion of the data. Wells Fargo offered two years of credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 47 days

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 119 days

Nov 6, 2019

Begins

Dec 23, 2019

Discovered

Apr 20, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
norm: wells fargo bank national

Name: KDW Automotive
norm: kdw automotive
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 23, 2019
Breach occurred: Nov 6, 2019
Undetected for: 47 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 20, 2020
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unknown
Third party: via Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

During the incident: Offering a complimentary two-year subscription to Experian IdentityWorks
Changes made: Continually evaluate and modify practices and internal controls to enhance security and privacy
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(119 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-189280
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 20, 2020
Raw hash: e241ce371aa7127792753b2107742dff440748d78c48f1c513305ee007fe1008

Reporting entityWells Fargo Bank, National Association

Victim entityKDW Automotive

Incidentdiscovered Dec 23, 2019

Stated responseOffering a complimentary two-year subscription to Experian IdentityWorks

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov