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PhysicalTechnologyInformationTheftEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

Gracenote

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 15, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Gracenote →

Gracenote, a Nielsen Company, reported the theft of an employee laptop from a vehicle in the California Bay Area on May 18, 2017. The device may have contained personal information for current and former employees, including contact details (name, work email, address) and government identification numbers. The company engaged Kroll to provide two years of complimentary identity monitoring services to affected individuals.

Incident timeline

May 18, 2017

Begins

Jun 15, 2017

Filed

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
New Hampshire State AGJun 15 · first
California State AGJun 15 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Jun 15 (NH), last Jun 23 (OR) — a 8-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.