AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentProgramming ErrorMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Franchise Tax Board

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 25, 2025

Filed

Jun 24, 2025

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Franchise Tax Board →

The California Franchise Tax Board disclosed an inadvertent data disclosure on April 25, 2025, caused by a programming error. An Order to Withhold Notice containing names, addresses, and Social Security Numbers was erroneously sent to a third-party payor. The FTB fixed the issue, instructed the payor to destroy the data, and offered free credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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California clockDiscovered Apr 25, 2025 → Notified Jun 23, 202559d ✓ CA 60-day OK9 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 60 days

Apr 25, 2025

Begins

Apr 25, 2025

Discovered

Jun 24, 2025

Filed

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_9482c73442671bb52025-07-17 · +23dCandidate

Name: Franchise Tax Board
norm: franchise tax board
Domain: ftb.ca.gov

Name: Franchise Tax Board
norm: franchise tax board
Domain: ftb.ca.gov
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Apr 25, 2025
Breach occurred: Apr 25, 2025
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 23, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
Third party: via Third-party payor

During the incident: Fixed the programming issue
Instructed the third-party payor to destroy the notice received in error
Offering credit and identity theft monitoring from ID Experts at no cost
Changes made: Reviewing procedures to implement additional data security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(60 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 59d
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: Apr 25, 2025
→ Notified: Jun 23, 2025
59d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Apr 25, 2025 → Notified: Jun 23, 2025	59d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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California State AGJun 24 · first · this page

California State AG+23d

Pattern: first filing Jun 24 (CA), last Jul 17 (CA) — a 23-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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-604418
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 24, 2025
Raw hash: bcd47a989dfa4c2ee13de1e191661f53515c63af394e555b6688eb38d10124a3

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFranchise Tax Board

Victim entityFranchise Tax Board

Incidentdiscovered Apr 25, 2025

Stated responseFixed the programming issue

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov