MisuseData MishandlingEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENTMediumContained
California Department of Fish and Wildlife
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Full breach record for California Department of Fish and Wildlife →California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) notified individuals of a data breach discovered on December 22, 2017. A former employee downloaded personally identifiable information, including names, social security numbers, and some home addresses, to an unencrypted personal device. The data pertained to employee records from 2007 and vendor/employee records from 2007-2010. CDFW notified the California Highway Patrol, which is investigating. No malicious intent by the former employee has been indicated. CDFW is reviewing policies to prevent recurrence.
California clockDiscovered Dec 22, 2017 → Notified Feb 15, 201855d ✓ CA 60-day OK8 weeks discovery → filing
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-133757
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Feb 14, 2018
- Raw hash
- d54d87fd5e77274377c857c6e2e062cb2aa05e5eefc834710de10daf731e3e73
Reporting entity
- Name
- California Department of Fish and Wildlifenorm: california department of fish and wildlife
Victim entity
- Name
- California Department of Fish and Wildlifenorm: california department of fish and wildlife
Incident
- Discovered
- Dec 22, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Feb 15, 2018
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENT
- Attack vector
- Insider
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1005 Data from Local SystemT1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Notified California Highway Patrol (CHP)
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(54 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 55d
- 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: Dec 22, 2017→ Notified: Feb 15, 201855d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.