PhysicalLossEmployee Data InvolvedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Government IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentMediumContained

Apple America Group LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 16, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Apple America Group LLC →

Apple America Group LLC reported that an outside consultant lost a USB flash drive containing employee W-2 information (name, address, SSN, wage/tax data) on March 3, 2015. The drive was lost while traveling. No evidence of misuse exists. Credit monitoring was offered to affected employees.

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Incident timeline

Mar 3, 2015

Begins

Mar 16, 2015

Filed

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_4c6588350e8284442015-03-15 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_71ec208217e8d8e02015-03-23 · +7dVerified

Name: Apple
norm: apple
Domain: apple.com

Name: Apple America Group LLC
norm: apple america

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Mar 3, 2015
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Employment
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Third party: via outside consultant

During the incident: Conducted exhaustive search for lost flash drive
Contacted airline regarding lost item
Offered 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring through Experian
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGMar 15 · first

California State AG+1d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+8d

Pattern: first filing Mar 15 (NH), last Mar 23 (MA) — a 8-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/sb24-48867
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 16, 2015
Raw hash: b6f1c69629700ba1ccfddb152e47e94c3c084b588b9d98625d30f29025a1d005

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityApple

Victim entityApple America Group LLC

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseConducted exhaustive search for lost flash drive

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov