Social EngineeringHospitalityHospitalityPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDFinancial accountIdentity (basic)MediumContained

The Langham, Huntington, Pasadena

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 28, 2020

Filed

Aug 20, 2020

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for The Langham, Huntington, Pasadena →

The Langham, Huntington, Pasadena experienced a phishing attack on April 10, 2020, where a third party gained unauthorized access to an employee's mailbox. The incident was confirmed on April 28, 2020. The breach exposed personal information including social security numbers, driver's license numbers, passport numbers, and credit card numbers for a small subset of individuals. The company secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, and offered credit monitoring services.

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California clockDiscovered Apr 28, 2020 → Notified Aug 6, 2020100d ✗ CA 60-day late16 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 18 days

discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 114 days

Apr 10, 2020

Begins

Apr 28, 2020

Discovered

Aug 20, 2020

Filed

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

Name: Huntington Hotel Group
norm: huntington hotel
Domain: huntingtonhotelgroup.com

Name: The Langham, Huntington, Pasadena
norm: the langham huntington pasadena
Industry: Hospitalityllm

Discovered: Apr 28, 2020
Breach occurred: Apr 10, 2020 – Apr 28, 2020
Undetected for: 18 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 6, 2020
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDFinancial accountIdentity (basic)
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Securing and then disabling the affected mailbox
Appointing a specialist data security provider to investigate the incident
Activating additional cybersecurity and anti-phishing measures
Verifying this incident was limited to one employee's mailbox
Scanning corporate and hotel networks to determine that there was no further compromise
Changes made: Activated additional cybersecurity and anti-phishing measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 weeks(114 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day late · 100d
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: Apr 28, 2020
→ Notified: Aug 6, 2020
100d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Apr 28, 2020 → Notified: Aug 6, 2020	100d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day late

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/sb24-193314
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 20, 2020
Raw hash: 693a72fd5d49ec5c93856ce00dae1acb4b099c38da309e1fc34b9b0f1fae6135

Reporting entityHuntington Hotel Group

Victim entityThe Langham, Huntington, Pasadena

Incidentdiscovered Apr 28, 2020

Stated responseSecuring and then disabling the affected mailbox

ComplianceCA 60-day late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov