MalwareFinancial ServicesFinanceRansomwareData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedRansom DemandedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancialMediumContained

Pacific City Bank

bd_b83a0cdcbd978b19 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 30, 2021

Filed

Oct 7, 2021

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Pacific City Bank →

Pacific City Bank experienced a ransomware attack between August 19 and August 30, 2021. The bank identified unusual activity on August 30, 2021, and determined on September 7, 2021, that an external actor had illegally accessed customer data, including names, addresses, Social Security Numbers, and wage/tax information. The bank engaged forensic investigators, notified law enforcement, and is offering credit monitoring to affected individuals.

J jump to incidentP pin to compareR raw source

Leak gap clock⏱ Leak >30d5 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 11 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 38 days

Aug 19, 2021

Begins

Aug 30, 2021

Discovered

Oct 7, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Siteavoslockerbd_ad26b877c3eb74c22021-09-04 · +33dVerified by operator

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_8e8283cceb5a28592021-10-07Verified by operator
Montana State AGbd_bb2521bd60a774df2021-10-07Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_2904495c12b6ef322021-10-08 · +1dCandidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_da958afefb51ba4e2021-10-08 · +1dVerified

Show 1 more filing ↓up to 46d gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_0e35810e37c7ef7d2021-11-22 · +46dVerified

Name: Pacific City Bank
norm: pacific city bank

Name: Pacific City Bank
norm: pacific city bank
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 30, 2021
Breach occurred: Aug 19, 2021 – Aug 30, 2021
Undetected for: 11 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Reported this incident to the appropriate law enforcement authorities

During the incident: Disabled the activity
Investigated its source
Monitored PCB’s network
Reported this incident to the appropriate law enforcement authorities
Working with third-party forensic investigators
Offering one year of free Equifax Complete Premier credit monitoring and identity theft protection
Changes made: Reviewing existing policies and procedures
Reviewing information security plan
Evaluating additional measures and safeguards to protect against this type of incident in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(38 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: Leak >30d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Indiana State AGOct 7 · first

Montana State AGOct 7 · first

California State AGOct 7 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+46d

Pattern: first filing Oct 7 (IN), last Nov 22 (NH) — a 46-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/sb24-546234
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 7, 2021
Raw hash: 691119c3d071eae4832beabd44d7c61d20a026adcdbcfc09027c3bc781cdf326

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPacific City Bank

Victim entityPacific City Bank

Incidentdiscovered Aug 30, 2021

Stated responseDisabled the activity

ComplianceLeak >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov