HackingConstructionConstructionSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Employee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentMediumContained

PCL Constructors Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 14, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for PCL Constructors Inc. →

PCL Constructors, Inc. reported that an unauthorized actor accessed a third-party payroll vendor's database containing personal information of current and former employees. The incident occurred between February 18 and 19, 2020. Affected data included names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, pay/withholding information, and Social Security numbers. PCL directed the vendor to remove the data, engaged forensic firms, and offered one year of identity monitoring to affected individuals. No evidence of misuse was found.

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Incident timeline

Feb 18, 2020

Begins

May 14, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_3a00f6140ba537382020-05-14Verified
Indiana State AGbd_62451bcb4e79f5f32020-05-14Verified
Montana State AGbd_fde57ffa81f792362020-05-14Candidate

Name: PCL Constructors Inc.
norm: pcl constructors

Name: PCL Constructors Inc.
norm: pcl constructors
Industry: Constructionllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Feb 18, 2020 – Feb 19, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 20, 2020
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notifying the appropriate regulatory authorities
Third party: via Third-party vendor
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Directed third-party vendor to remove all current and former PCL employee data from its database
Engaged a cybersecurity and forensic firm to determine how the security incident occurred and the scope of such incident
Hired a leading forensic investigation firm to conduct a search of the dark web in relation to the incident
Notifying the appropriate regulatory authorities
Offering a complimentary 1-year membership of myTrueIdentity provided by TransUnion Interactive
Changes made: Conducted a thorough review of the potentially affected records
Continue to review existing policies and procedures designed to attempt to prevent a similar occurrence from happening again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGMay 14 · first

Indiana State AGMay 14 · first

Montana State AGMay 14 · first

California State AGMay 14 · first · this page

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/sb24-189975
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 14, 2020
Raw hash: b79ee14ec2bd27695ea93096fc37113c0864f8a50f2a8300873b15e519b1b935

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPCL Constructors Inc.

Victim entityPCL Constructors Inc.

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responseDirected third-party vendor to remove all current and former PCL employee data from its database

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov