AccidentalTransportation & LogisticsTransportationMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE INC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 27, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE INC →2 incidents on file

On November 1, 2018, Group 1 Automotive, Inc. experienced a data security incident where personal information of some employees was inadvertently and temporarily exposed to the administrator of another Paylocity client due to a misdelivery error. The exposed information included names and Social Security numbers. The information was not viewed or compromised. Paylocity investigated, provided supplemental training, and implemented systemic fixes. Affected individuals were offered 12 months of identity protection.

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Incident timeline

Nov 1, 2018

Begins

Nov 27, 2018

Filed

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

Name: GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE INC
norm: group 1 automotive

Name: GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE INC
norm: group 1 automotive
Industry: Transportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Nov 1, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 28, 2018
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unknown
Third party: via Paylocity Corporation

During the incident: Investigated the incident as soon as we learned of it and took immediate action
Providing supplemental training to Paylocity employees on the proper handling of personal information
Taken steps to help systemically prevent messages from being sent to an unintended recipient
Arranged to have AllClear ID protect your identity for 12 months at no cost
Changes made: Providing supplemental training to Paylocity employees on the proper handling of personal information
Taken steps to help systemically prevent messages from being sent to an unintended recipient
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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/sb24-142152
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 27, 2018
Raw hash: 532d954f769fbc359733723f4a8908818f502ff9cfafb514426f973ef0e3fd0a

Reporting entityGROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE INC

Victim entityGROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE INC

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseInvestigated the incident as soon as we learned of it and took immediate action

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov