AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Sacramento County Employee Benefits Office

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 15, 2022

Filed

Aug 29, 2022

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Sacramento County Employee Benefits Office →

On July 15, 2022, the Sacramento County Employee Benefits Office accidentally sent an email containing personal information (name, address, SSN) to unauthorized County employees. The email was deleted, and corrective actions including policy reviews and security training were implemented. Affected individuals were offered 12 months of identity monitoring.

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California clockDiscovered Jul 15, 2022 → Notified Aug 9, 202225d ✓ CA 60-day OK6 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 45 days

Jul 15, 2022

Begins

Jul 15, 2022

Discovered

Aug 29, 2022

Filed

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

Name: Sacramento County Employee Benefits Office
norm: sacramento county employee benefits office

Name: Sacramento County Employee Benefits Office
norm: sacramento county employee benefits office
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Jul 15, 2022
Breach occurred: Jul 15, 2022
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 9, 2022
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: The email has been deleted from the accounts of all County employees who received the email
Changes made: Reviewing and revising our procedures and practices to minimize the risk of recurrence
Reviewing policies and procedures
Reviewing technical controls
Additional Security Awareness training to minimize the risk of recurrence
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(45 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 25d
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: Jul 15, 2022
→ Notified: Aug 9, 2022
25d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jul 15, 2022 → Notified: Aug 9, 2022	25d	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/sb24-556714
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 29, 2022
Raw hash: ddbf2f08e79d719a9a1e60957dd935b09aba298a5c00bf2dee119cd0000c0919

Reporting entitySacramento County Employee Benefits Office

Victim entitySacramento County Employee Benefits Office

Incidentdiscovered Jul 15, 2022

Stated responseThe email has been deleted from the accounts of all County employees who received the email

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov