MisuseTechnologyManufacturingInformationData MishandlingEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentHighActive

SENSATA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Jan 16, 2019

Filed

Jan 30, 2019

To disclose

14 days

Affected · nationwide

2,3793 in this filing

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for SENSATA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. →2 incidents on file

Sensata Technologies notified NH AG of an inadvertent internal email disclosure of W-2 forms to an employee on Jan 2, 2019. Discovered Jan 16, 2019. Affected 2,379 individuals (3 in NH). Data included names, SSNs, addresses, earnings. Remediation: investigation, employee training, Kroll credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 14 days

discovery → filing · 14 days

Jan 2, 2019

Begins

Jan 16, 2019

Discovered

Jan 30, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

9 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_c51c8dc9d9087da12019-01-31 · +1dVerified

Name: Jackson Lewis
norm: jackson lewis
Domain: jacksonlewis.com

Name: SENSATA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
norm: sensata technologies
Domain: sensata.com
Industry: TechnologyllmManufacturingllm

Discovered: Jan 16, 2019
Breach occurred: Jan 2, 2019
Undetected for: 14 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,379state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of Attorney General
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Commenced an investigation to determine the nature and extent of the incident
IT team immediately took steps to review the employee's email correspondence
Interviewed the employee about the incident
Took steps to secure the employees' personal information
Obtained written confirmation by the employee that all of the information had been destroyed or returned
Providing affected persons with ID theft resolution and credit monitoring services at no cost
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for one year
Changes made: Reexamining its current privacy and data security policies and procedures
Redoubling its efforts at employee training concerning the handling of email attachments
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 days(14 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGJan 30 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/sensata-technologies-20180130.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 30, 2019
Raw hash: 2cfc2ddbb0d965345ae372109f8cd94ed6c80f4118ac4a9809532a379efd3fe5

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityJackson Lewis

Victim entitySENSATA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 16, 2019

Stated responseCommenced an investigation to determine the nature and extent of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov