PhysicalTechnologyInformationTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Gracenote

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 19, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Gracenote →

The Nielsen Company (via its subsidiary Gracenote) reported the theft of a laptop belonging to an employee in the California Bay Area on May 18, 2017. The laptop may have contained personal information of current and former Gracenote associates, including names, work emails, addresses, and government identification numbers. The company engaged Kroll to provide two years of complimentary identity monitoring services to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

May 18, 2017

Begins

Jun 19, 2017

Filed

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Oregon State AGbd_7f1f058bfa533bb52017-06-23 · +4dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_43408ffabadc8ea92017-06-15 · +4dCandidate
California State AGbd_8220d30239098e572017-06-15 · +4dVerified

Name: NIELSEN COMPANY THE
norm: nielsen company the

Name: Gracenote
norm: gracenote
Domain: gracenote.com
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: May 18, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 17, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for two years
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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New Hampshire State AGJun 15 · first

California State AGJun 15 · first

Montana State AG+4d · this page

Oregon State AG+8d

Pattern: first filing Jun 15 (NH), last Jun 23 (OR) — a 8-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/The-Nielsen-Company.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 19, 2017
Raw hash: 95e954bcd65dd5285c7cd5ff881d7cef74de684164866e3e75755bdd8ad67ded

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNIELSEN COMPANY THE

Victim entityGracenote

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseSecured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for two years

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov