AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisdeliverySupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentMediumResolved

Ally Bank

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 1, 2018

Filed

Dec 13, 2018

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Ally Bank →18 incidents on file

Ally Bank notified California residents that a third-party supplier inadvertently transmitted files containing personal information (including SSNs, credit scores, and employment data) to another financial institution in November 2018. The error was discovered in November 2018. The receiving institution deleted the files. Ally Bank offered two years of complimentary credit monitoring through Equifax.

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California clockDiscovered Nov 1, 2018 → Notified Dec 12, 201841d ✓ CA 60-day OK6 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

Nov 11, 2018

Begins

Dec 13, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

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

Name: Ally Bank
norm: ally bank

Name: Ally Bank
norm: ally bank
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 1, 2018
Breach occurred: Nov 11, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 12, 2018
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmployment
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
Threat actor: Partner
Third party: via third-party supplier
Initial access: trusted_relationship

During the incident: Investigated this matter
Engaged Equifax to provide Credit Watch Gold with 3-in-1 Monitoring identity theft protection product for two years at no charge
Changes made: Third-party supplier made immediate changes to their procedures
Third-party supplier provided additional training to prevent this type of error in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(42 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 41d
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: Nov 1, 2018
→ Notified: Dec 12, 2018
41d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Nov 1, 2018 → Notified: Dec 12, 2018	41d	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/sb24-142630
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 13, 2018
Raw hash: 2e99cc8b3e449ce6ba224fe9d4b7afef7c80a5ab693ee5f2adb3f823257264b5

Reporting entityAlly Bank

Victim entityAlly Bank

Incidentdiscovered Nov 1, 2018

Stated responseInvestigated this matter

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov