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HackingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMedium

SK hynix America Inc.

bd_b9722d3f92268b81 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 16, 2020

Filed

Dec 1, 2020

To disclose

15 weeks

Affected · nationwide

5073 in this filing

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for SK hynix America Inc. →

SK hynix America, Inc. experienced an external system breach from August 3 to August 17, 2020, discovered on August 16, 2020. The incident compromised personal identifiers and Social Security numbers. The breach affected 507 individuals in total, including 3 residents of Maine. Affected individuals were notified in writing on December 1, 2020, and offered one year of complimentary credit monitoring, fraud consultation, and identity theft restoration services provided by Kroll.

Maine clockDiscovered Aug 16, 2020 → Filed with AG Dec 1, 2020107d ✗ ME AG >90d15 weeks 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.

Incident timeline

undetected · 13 days
discovery → filing · 15 weeks / 107 days

Aug 3, 2020

Begins

Aug 16, 2020

Discovered

Dec 1, 2020

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Indiana State AGDec 1 · first
Maine State AGDec 1 · first · this page

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.