MisuseGovernmentGovernmentData MishandlingEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

California Department of Fish and Wildlife

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 22, 2017

Filed

Feb 14, 2018

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

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.

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California clockDiscovered Dec 22, 2017 → Notified Feb 15, 201855d ✓ CA 60-day OK8 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 54 days

Dec 22, 2017

Discovered

Feb 14, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

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

Name: California Department of Fish and Wildlife
norm: california department of fish and wildlife

Name: California Department of Fish and Wildlife
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Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Dec 22, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 15, 2018
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
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

During the incident: Notified the California Highway Patrol (CHP)
Cooperating with CHP criminal investigation
Changes made: Reviewing and revising policies, procedures, and practices to minimize the risk of future recurrence
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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, 2018
55d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Dec 22, 2017 → Notified: Feb 15, 2018	55d	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/sb24-133757
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 entityCalifornia Department of Fish and Wildlife

Victim entityCalifornia Department of Fish and Wildlife

Incidentdiscovered Dec 22, 2017

Stated responseNotified the California Highway Patrol (CHP)

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov