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Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 18, 2017

Filed

Feb 22, 2018

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. →

Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. reported the theft of two HR computers in its Santa Cruz office on or around December 17, 2017. The incident was discovered on December 18, 2017. Personal information of two New Hampshire residents, including SSNs and health data, may have been accessed. The company notified the NH AG and affected individuals on February 22, 2018, offering one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 66 days

Dec 17, 2017

Begins

Dec 18, 2017

Discovered

Feb 22, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_1230217910e533d72018-02-22Verified
Montana State AGbd_b1ae7a75e8e1e8022018-02-22Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_26c0fa0ec7a15d0a2018-02-26 · +4dVerified
California State AGbd_49e04d671ab27e502018-03-30 · +36dCandidate

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New Hampshire State AGbd_b7789c0f02d322482018-03-30 · +36dVerified

Name: Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.
norm: santa cruz biotechnology

Name: Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.
norm: santa cruz biotechnology
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Dec 18, 2017
Breach occurred: Dec 17, 2017
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 22, 2018
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney GeneralWorking with local law enforcement and the FBI

During the incident: Contacted law enforcement
Began an investigation into the data stored on the laptop
Notified local law enforcement and the FBI
Arranged to have ID Experts provide credit monitoring and identity repair services for one year
Changes made: Implementing additional security controls
Encrypting laptop and desktop computers that contain sensitive information
Enabling software capable of locating, disabling, and remotely destroying data on Santa Cruz computers
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(66 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 4 states

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California State AGFeb 22 · first

Montana State AGFeb 22 · first

New Hampshire State AGFeb 22 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+4d

California State AG+36d

New Hampshire State AG+36d

Pattern: first filing Feb 22 (CA), last Mar 30 (NH) — a 36-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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/santa-cruz-20180222.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 22, 2018
Raw hash: cbcd1481253c1feac40224cdd5208ec064aa014fd383d7cb15166848e4b4da65

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySanta Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.

Victim entitySanta Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Dec 18, 2017

Stated responseContacted law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov