MalwareCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTPHIHEALTH_BASICMediumContained
ZEG – Berlin Center for Epidemiology and Health Research GMBH
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Full breach record for ZEG – Berlin Center for Epidemiology and Health Research GMBH →ZEG – Berlin Center for Epidemiology and Health Research GMBH notified the California Attorney General of a data breach affecting participants in the NORA and INAS-SCORE health studies. Malicious code was discovered on servers on August 4, 2020, with intrusion active since early July 2020. Affected data may include names, SSNs, and medical/health information. The threat was contained, malicious code removed, and enhanced protections deployed. 24 months of identity protection were offered.
California clockDiscovered Aug 4, 2020 → Notified Nov 30, 2020118d ✗ CA 60-day late16 weeks discovery → filing
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-196531
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Nov 25, 2020
- Raw hash
- 4cc97c80ab8a3262c4b2cbbf5faba3aec11fc2121874c64c448fd1847eb4bb14
Reporting entity
- Name
- ZEG – Berlin Center for Epidemiology and Health Research GMBHnorm: zeg berlin center for epidemiology and health research
Victim entity
- Name
- ZEG – Berlin Center for Epidemiology and Health Research GMBHnorm: zeg berlin center for epidemiology and health research
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 4, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Nov 30, 2020
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTPHIHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unknown
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1059 Command and Scripting InterpreterT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Filed notification with California Attorney General
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 16 weeks(113 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 118d
- 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: Aug 4, 2020→ Notified: Nov 30, 2020118d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.