Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Bank of the West

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 15, 2014

Filed

Jul 16, 2014

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Bank of the West →10 incidents on file

Bank of the West discovered an email scam in mid-May 2014 that temporarily compromised two employees' remote email login credentials. Customer data, including names, account/loan numbers, and Social Security Numbers, was potentially exposed in email messages. The bank disabled remote email access, conducted an investigation, and offered one year of identity monitoring.

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California clockDiscovered May 15, 2014 → Notified Jul 15, 201461d ✗ CA 60-day late9 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 62 days

May 15, 2014

Discovered

Jul 16, 2014

Filed

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This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_1b8e8c129aabcab52014-07-17 · +1dVerified

Name: Bank of the West
norm: bank of the west

Name: Bank of the West
norm: bank of the west
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 15, 2014
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 15, 2014
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Disabled all remote access to our email system
Conducted a thorough investigation
Offered one year of free identity monitoring through First Watch ID
Changes made: Established additional security measures to authenticate off-site access going forward
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(62 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day late · 61d
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: May 15, 2014
→ Notified: Jul 15, 2014
61d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: May 15, 2014 → Notified: Jul 15, 2014	61d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day late

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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California State AGJul 16 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

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/sb24-45891
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 16, 2014
Raw hash: fcd7eadddb7fee2e5029e684e617bba1bc14a025112aa2d4d1f9bde6a372612f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBank of the West

Victim entityBank of the West

Incidentdiscovered May 15, 2014

Stated responseDisabled all remote access to our email system

ComplianceCA 60-day late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov