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O.C. Tanner

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 14, 2016

Filed

Apr 15, 2016

To disclose

≤1 day

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for O.C. Tanner2 incidents on file

O.C. Tanner notified employees of a phishing attack on April 14, 2016, where an employee was tricked into providing W-2 data (names, addresses, SSNs, wages) to a fraudster. The incident was discovered immediately. O.C. Tanner notified the FBI and IRS, and offered one year of credit monitoring via Experian.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · ≤1 day / 1 days

Apr 14, 2016

Begins

Apr 14, 2016

Discovered

Apr 15, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

19 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGApr 15 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Apr 15 (MT), last Apr 26 (NH) — a 11-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.