MisuseAgriculture & FoodAgricultureData MishandlingEmployee Data InvolvedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Reiter Berry Farms, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 3, 2019

Filed

Nov 8, 2019

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Reiter Berry Farms, Inc. →

Reiter Berry Farms, Inc. notified the California Attorney General that a former employee of its third-party payroll administrator sent reports containing employee names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and potentially dates of birth and financial account information to a personal email account. The unauthorized emails were sent on August 12 and August 26, 2019. The company learned of the incident on or around October 3, 2019, during an investigation into suspected theft by the former employee. Law enforcement was notified, and credit monitoring services were offered to affected individuals.

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California clockDiscovered Oct 3, 2019 → Notified Nov 8, 201936d ✓ CA 60-day OK5 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 52 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 36 days

Aug 12, 2019

Begins

Oct 3, 2019

Discovered

Nov 8, 2019

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Reiter Berry Farms, Inc.
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Name: Reiter Berry Farms, Inc.
norm: reiter berry farms
Industry: Agriculture & Foodllm

Discovered: Oct 3, 2019
Breach occurred: Aug 12, 2019 – Aug 26, 2019
Undetected for: 52 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 8, 2019
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Third party: via administrative services company
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified law enforcement
Working with the administrative services company to respond
Secured the services of Epiq to provide credit monitoring and identity restoration services
Changes made: Increasing scrutiny in hiring and background checks
Exploring placing limits on email activity
Increasing the monitoring of sensitive information on their network
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 · 36d
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 3, 2019
→ Notified: Nov 8, 2019
36d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Oct 3, 2019 → Notified: Nov 8, 2019	36d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/sb24-184202
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 8, 2019
Raw hash: b623fcd1cf33d4d1a3d7e24210721a463ed4213bd0ed2a1a810bfa072f194d4d

Reporting entityReiter Berry Farms, Inc.

Victim entityReiter Berry Farms, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 3, 2019

Stated responseNotified law enforcement

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov