AccidentalProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

The John Stewart Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 13, 2012

Filed

Aug 23, 2012

To disclose

10 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for The John Stewart Company →

The John Stewart Company inadvertently disclosed employee names, social security numbers, and birth dates via internal emails sent on August 7 and 13, 2012. The company deleted the emails, retained LifeLock for identity theft protection, and reinforced internal policies. The incident was classified as an inadvertent staff error.

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California clockDiscovered Aug 13, 2012 → Notified Aug 23, 201210d ✓ CA 60-day OK10 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 6 days

discovery → filing · 10 days

Aug 7, 2012

Begins

Aug 13, 2012

Discovered

Aug 23, 2012

Filed

vs. sector median

18 wks faster

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

Name: The John Stewart Company
norm: the john stewart
Domain: jsco.net

Name: The John Stewart Company
norm: the john stewart
Domain: jsco.net
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 13, 2012
Breach occurred: Aug 7, 2012 – Aug 13, 2012
Undetected for: 6 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 23, 2012
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Delete the e-mail from every computer to which it was sent
Retained LifeLock to provide one (1) year of identity theft protection at no cost
Changes made: Reinforce policies and practices to prevent a similar incident from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 days(10 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 10d
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: Aug 13, 2012
→ Notified: Aug 23, 2012
10d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Aug 13, 2012 → Notified: Aug 23, 2012	10d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

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/sb24-32684
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 23, 2012
Raw hash: c427a9d2816b4345954132a96cb98ff80d54dc88b111ab161255d944c0dfb70c

Reporting entityThe John Stewart Company

Victim entityThe John Stewart Company

Incidentdiscovered Aug 13, 2012

Stated responseDelete the e-mail from every computer to which it was sent

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov