Social EngineeringOtherPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDFinancial accountIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Mercy Housing, Inc., Mercy Housing Management Group, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 19, 2016

Filed

Feb 25, 2016

To disclose

6 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Mercy Housing, Inc., Mercy Housing Management Group, Inc. →

Mercy Housing experienced a security breach involving the unauthorized release of 2015 W-2 forms for current and former employees due to an email scam. The incident occurred on February 19, 2016. Affected data included Social Security numbers, names, and financial information. The company engaged LifeLock for credit monitoring and SupportLinc for identity theft assistance, and notified law enforcement.

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California clockDiscovered Feb 19, 2016 → Notified Feb 20, 20161d ✓ CA 60-day OK6 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 days

Feb 19, 2016

Begins

Feb 19, 2016

Discovered

Feb 25, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

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

Name: Mercy Housing, Inc., Mercy Housing Management Group, Inc.
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Name: Mercy Housing, Inc., Mercy Housing Management Group, Inc.
norm: mercy housing inc mercy housing management
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Feb 19, 2016
Breach occurred: Feb 19, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 20, 2016
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDFinancial accountIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 Phishing
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Informed law enforcement and Federal agencies of this incident
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Contracted with LifeLock to provide free credit monitoring for 3 years
Contracted with SupportLinc to offer identity theft assistance
Informed law enforcement and Federal agencies of this incident
Sent notification letters to affected individuals
Changes made: Took immediate action to prevent a repeat of this violation
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 days(6 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 1d
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: Feb 19, 2016
→ Notified: Feb 20, 2016
1d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Feb 19, 2016 → Notified: Feb 20, 2016	1d	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/sb24-60215
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 25, 2016
Raw hash: 1f45a32ad056da3cae62fba33f04849bacedff606a0c60dc42acccc431f5494f

Reporting entityMercy Housing, Inc., Mercy Housing Management Group, Inc.

Victim entityMercy Housing, Inc., Mercy Housing Management Group, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Feb 19, 2016

Stated responseContracted with LifeLock to provide free credit monitoring for 3 years

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov