MalwareTechnologyHealthcareInformationRansomwareData EncryptedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

Olympus Corporation of the Americas

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 10, 2021

Filed

Nov 15, 2021

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Olympus Corporation of the Americas →

Olympus Corporation of the Americas discovered a data security incident on October 10, 2021, where an unauthorized third party gained access to systems and corrupted files containing employee personal information, including names, addresses, and Social Security numbers. The company engaged cyber experts and law enforcement, contained the threat, and offered two years of credit monitoring to affected employees. No evidence suggests data was exfiltrated or viewed.

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California clockDiscovered Oct 10, 2021 → Notified Nov 12, 202133d ✓ CA 60-day OK5 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 36 days

Oct 10, 2021

Begins

Oct 10, 2021

Discovered

Nov 15, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

14 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_4304122d1c1c4cf02021-11-15Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_e7ed58d4b069befc2021-11-15Verified
Montana State AGbd_b0e4c7ae3594aa2c2021-11-12 · +3dCandidate
Indiana State AGbd_fc28858a5e2dd97f2021-11-12 · +3dVerified

Name: Olympus Corporation of the Americas
norm: olympus corporation of the americas

Name: Olympus Corporation of the Americas
norm: olympus corporation of the americas
Industry: TechnologyllmHealthcarellm

Discovered: Oct 10, 2021
Breach occurred: Oct 10, 2021
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 12, 2021
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement

During the incident: Launched an investigation and recovery effort with the assistance of cyber experts and law enforcement
Offered a complimentary two-year subscription to Experian IdentityWorks credit monitoring and identity theft protection
Changes made: Making increased efforts to improve information security to prevent incidents like this from occurring in the future
Taken further steps to enhance security measures going forward
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(36 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 33d
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: Oct 10, 2021
→ Notified: Nov 12, 2021
33d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Oct 10, 2021 → Notified: Nov 12, 2021	33d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Montana State AGNov 12 · first

Indiana State AGNov 12 · first

Maine State AG+3d

Massachusetts State AG+3d

California State AG+3d · this page

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-547550
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 15, 2021
Raw hash: 1ef80dea46d8c236ebe2efc5dfd77bbfcf1903ee70d70270222b2e4f8a48fac3

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityOlympus Corporation of the Americas

Victim entityOlympus Corporation of the Americas

Incidentdiscovered Oct 10, 2021

Stated responseLaunched an investigation and recovery effort with the assistance of cyber experts and law enforcement

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov