PhysicalLossCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumResolved
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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Full breach record for UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA →University of Southern California notified affected individuals that a professor lost an external hard drive containing student academic information, including names and Social Security numbers. The incident occurred on September 28, 2021, and was discovered on October 1, 2021. No evidence of misuse was found. USC offered complimentary identity theft protection services.
California clockDiscovered Oct 1, 2021 → Notified Dec 2, 202162d ✗ CA 60-day late12 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_4962b25312de3ec3Maine State AGfiled 2021-12-28(6d gap)Verified by operator
- bd_a24a34dbd24aff6eMontana State AGfiled 2021-12-02(20d gap)Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-548786
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Dec 22, 2021
- Raw hash
- 364fcedb8790f490afca1b0a471587cebbf15f28eca8ad04d917eb69c0b603a0
Reporting entity
- Name
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAnorm: university of southern california
Victim entity
- Name
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAnorm: university of southern california
Incident
- Discovered
- Oct 1, 2021
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Dec 2, 2021
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unknown
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 12 weeks(82 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 62d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Oct 1, 2021→ Notified: Dec 2, 202162d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.