Social EngineeringPhishingTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIALMediumContained
inVentiv Health, Inc.
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Full breach record for inVentiv Health, Inc. →inVentiv Health, Inc. reported a targeted phishing incident in California. On July 7, 2016, the company discovered a phishing email sent in June 2016, impersonating an executive, which resulted in employees uploading W-2 forms containing names, SSNs, addresses, and salary data to a file-sharing site. The FBI and IRS were notified. The company enhanced security, re-educated staff, and provided two years of Equifax credit monitoring to affected employees.
California clockDiscovered Jul 7, 2016 → Notified Jul 19, 201612d ✓ CA 60-day OK14 days discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_52abf569691848e3Montana State AGfiled 2016-07-21Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-62962
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jul 21, 2016
- Raw hash
- 21d85cb4b3f4a14cfb2d462d16c4b4fa91e2668a991ec12984dd52becd91b94e
Reporting entity
- Name
- inVentiv Health, Inc.norm: inventiv health
Victim entity
- Name
- inVentiv Health, Inc.norm: inventiv health
Incident
- Discovered
- Jul 7, 2016
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jul 19, 2016
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified the IRS and FBI
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 14 days(14 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 12d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Jul 7, 2016→ Notified: Jul 19, 201612d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.