AccidentalMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHighContained
Auto Approve, LLC
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Full breach record for Auto Approve, LLC →Auto Approve, LLC disclosed a data event where a system vulnerability exposed personal information of auto loan customers for approximately three weeks. The vulnerability was discovered on September 15, 2019, after a security researcher alerted the company. The exposed data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, loan information, and vehicle details. Approximately 9,549 California residents were affected. Auto Approve remediated the issue, notified affected individuals, and offered two years of credit monitoring.
California clockDiscovered Sep 15, 2019 → Notified Oct 28, 201943d ✓ CA 60-day OK6 weeks discovery → filing
This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_51b08a2737b12a6aMontana State AGfiled 2019-10-28Candidate
- bd_63828ec7be949977Oregon State AGfiled 2019-10-28Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-183864
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Oct 28, 2019
- Raw hash
- 2a2657a7d9398217cd7264cff27fc3177082d5e0794bf32e34ca9b4d22c9e99c
Reporting entity
- Name
- Auto Approve, LLCnorm: auto approve
Victim entity
- Name
- Auto Approve, LLCnorm: auto approve
Incident
- Discovered
- Sep 15, 2019
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Oct 28, 2019
- Affected individuals
- 9,549
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- Regulator citations
- Notified California Attorney GeneralNotifying other regulators as required
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 6 weeks(43 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 43d
- 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: Sep 15, 2019→ Notified: Oct 28, 201943d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.