HackingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedDelayed DiscoveryCREDENTIALSPIILowContained
LinkedIn Corporation
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Full breach record for LinkedIn Corporation →LinkedIn Corporation notified California AG that data from a 2012 breach (email addresses, hashed passwords, member IDs) was made available online in May 2016. LinkedIn invalidated passwords for affected legacy accounts, engaged law enforcement, and enhanced security (salted hashes, 2FA). No new hack occurred; this was a re-use of old credentials.
California clockDiscovered May 17, 2016 → Notified May 25, 20168d ✓ CA 60-day OK16 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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-62124
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jun 2, 2016
- Raw hash
- 922a1521b8be67095c09c59f5defdce52cc6fc2cb5e0ca6d00ca7a97cdb0bb2f
Reporting entity
- Name
- LinkedIn Corporationnorm: linkedin
- Domain
- linkedin.com
Victim entity
- Name
- LinkedIn Corporationnorm: linkedin
- Domain
- linkedin.com
Incident
- Discovered
- May 17, 2016
- Materiality determined
- May 25, 2016
- Notification sent
- May 25, 2016
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- CREDENTIALSPII
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 16 days(16 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 8d
- 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: May 17, 2016→ Notified: May 25, 20168d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.