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AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentMediumResolved

NORTHERN TRUST CORPORATION

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 31, 2014

Filed

Jul 29, 2014

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for NORTHERN TRUST CORPORATION2 incidents on file

Northern Trust inadvertently transmitted an encrypted file containing employee benefits plan participant information (name, address, SSN, account numbers, bank routing/account numbers) to a record-keeping company not responsible for that specific plan. The incident occurred on May 17, 2014. The recipient company's employee viewed the data, notified Northern Trust, and permanently deleted the file. No further dissemination occurred. Northern Trust offered one year of credit monitoring.

California clockDiscovered May 31, 2014Notified Jul 1, 201431d CA 60-day OK8 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 14 days
discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 59 days

May 17, 2014

Begins

May 31, 2014

Discovered

Jul 29, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

on median

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
New Hampshire State AGJul 29 · first
Massachusetts State AGJul 29 · first
Hawaii State AGJul 29 · first
California State AGJul 29 · 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.