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Gray Television

bd_5de4e6d28bc67927 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 12, 2016

Filed

Sep 7, 2016

To disclose

26 days

Affected

95state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Gray Television →2 incidents on file

Gray Television, Inc. notified employees that a thumb drive containing unencrypted employee PII (including SSNs, names, and compensation data) was lost or stolen in a package mailed to an insurance carrier on August 12, 2016. Gray offered one year of credit monitoring. No evidence of data access was found.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 26 days

Aug 12, 2016

Discovered

Sep 7, 2016

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGAug 31 · first
South Carolina State AG+7d · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 31 (MT), last Sep 7 (SC) — a 7-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.