Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighContained

STEEL PARTNERS HOLDINGS L.P.

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Severity

High

Discovered

May 29, 2020

Filed

Jun 29, 2020

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

3,628state residents only

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for STEEL PARTNERS HOLDINGS L.P. →2 incidents on file

Steel Partners Holdings LP notified South Carolina residents of a data breach involving unauthorized access to an employee's email account. The incident, discovered in May 2020, exposed personal information including names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and health information related to disability or workers' compensation claims. Steel Partners locked the account, engaged forensic investigators, reset passwords, and implemented stricter multi-factor authentication. Affected individuals were offered two years of credit monitoring via Experian IdentityWorks.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due4 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.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 31 days

May 29, 2020

Discovered

Jun 29, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_6be8759b2eb0d3482020-06-29Candidate
Indiana State AGbd_d1792ff303bb51542020-06-29Verified
Delaware State AGbd_d8b05cdca0e423622020-06-29Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_25cb6bbe7680f0202020-07-16 · +17dVerified

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California State AGbd_d278d119b9afcdc02020-07-16 · +17dCandidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_d994bde2b3fef2842020-07-30 · +31dVerified
California State AGbd_3ca7167cc02cf4962020-08-02 · +34dVerified

Name: STEEL PARTNERS HOLDINGS L.P.
norm: steel partners

Name: STEEL PARTNERS HOLDINGS L.P.
norm: steel partners
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 29, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 29, 2020
Affected individuals: 3,628state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Initiated an investigation
Locked the account
Engaged a forensic security firm to assist
Requiring a password reset for our employees
Implemented measures to help prevent similar attacks from happening in the future, including changes to our login process and implementing stricter multi-factor authentication rules
Conducted a broader review of our network
Offering you a complimentary two-year subscription to Experian IdentityWorks
Changes made: Implemented measures to help prevent similar attacks from happening in the future, including changes to our login process and implementing stricter multi-factor authentication rules
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(31 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
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.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 7 states

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Montana State AGJun 29 · first

Indiana State AGJun 29 · first

Delaware State AGJun 29 · first

South Carolina State AGJun 29 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+17d

California State AG+17d

New Hampshire State AG+31d

California State AG+34d

Pattern: first filing Jun 29 (MT), last Aug 2 (CA) — a 34-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.

Source URL: https://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2020/SteelPartners.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 29, 2020
Raw hash: 623dbb634cb0445d381da53832077b1147f88383d5698f1175476aa2f82a23a0

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySTEEL PARTNERS HOLDINGS L.P.

Victim entitySTEEL PARTNERS HOLDINGS L.P.

Incidentdiscovered May 29, 2020

Stated responseInitiated an investigation

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov