AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

State of California Department of Justice

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 27, 2022

Filed

Jul 30, 2022

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for State of California Department of Justice →2 incidents on file

The California Department of Justice disclosed personal information on June 27, 2022, due to a misconfiguration during an update to its Firearms Dashboard Portal. The exposed data included names, dates of birth, addresses, and government-issued identifiers for individuals involved in concealed carry weapon permit processes between 2011 and 2021. The data was publicly accessible for less than 24 hours before being removed. The DOJ shut down the dashboard, launched an investigation, and offered credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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California clockDiscovered Jun 27, 2022 → Notified Jul 8, 202211d ✓ CA 60-day OK5 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 33 days

Jun 27, 2022

Begins

Jun 27, 2022

Discovered

Jul 30, 2022

Filed

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

Name

Name: State of California Department of Justice
norm: state of california department of justice
Domain: oag.ca.gov
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Jun 27, 2022
Breach occurred: Jun 27, 2022 – Jun 27, 2022
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 8, 2022
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Misconfiguration

During the incident: Removed the information from public view
Shut down the Firearms Dashboard
Launched an investigation into how this occurred
Contacting individuals who have been impacted by the breach
Established a call center to address questions
Offering complimentary access to credit monitoring services through IDX
Changes made: Conducting a review of policies and procedures
Implementing additional security measures to protect the security of information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(33 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 11d
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: Jun 27, 2022
→ Notified: Jul 8, 2022
11d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jun 27, 2022 → Notified: Jul 8, 2022	11d	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/sb24-555783
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 30, 2022
Raw hash: 4d80c6b5cb1a06e974905c4633ef67b4fba729996d635e97eb4b9dd0c7c49b2d

Reporting entity

Victim entityState of California Department of Justice

Incidentdiscovered Jun 27, 2022

Stated responseRemoved the information from public view

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov