HackingManufacturingManufacturingStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 28, 2020

Filed

Mar 20, 2020

To disclose

21 days

Affected

11state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY →4 incidents on file

General Electric Company notified Montana residents of a data breach involving its third-party service provider, Canon Business Process Services. Between Feb 3-14, 2020, an unauthorized party accessed a Canon email account containing employee/beneficiary PII (SSNs, driver's licenses, bank info). GE was notified on Feb 28, 2020. Canon engaged forensic experts and offered 2 years of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 25 days

discovery → filing · 21 days

Feb 3, 2020

Begins

Feb 28, 2020

Discovered

Mar 20, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_e79fc55215e7f09f2020-03-20Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_fb815d7a897553a92020-03-20Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_49c04691a14c18012020-03-13 · +7dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_88b9e6322be0a8642020-03-13 · +7dVerified

Name: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
norm: general electric
Domain: ge.com

Name: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
norm: general electric
Domain: ge.com
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Feb 28, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 3, 2020 – Feb 14, 2020
Undetected for: 25 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 20, 2020
Affected individuals: 11state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Canon Business Process Services, Inc.
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Working with Canon to identify the affected GE employees, former employees and beneficiaries
Canon took steps to secure its systems and determine the nature of the issue
Canon retained a data security expert to conduct a forensic investigation
Offering identity protection and credit monitoring services to affected individuals for two years at no cost through Experian
Changes made: Taking steps to help ensure appropriate measures are implemented to prevent a reoccurrence of this kind of incident
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 days(21 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGMar 13 · first

Indiana State AGMar 13 · first

California State AG+7d

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Montana State AG+7d · this page

Pattern: first filing Mar 13 (MA), last Mar 20 (MT) — a 7-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/General-Notice-73.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 20, 2020
Raw hash: 76288f24a448246964999914f8426bc5fe252393f89ee4b192ed4c8ea1922115

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityGENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Victim entityGENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Incidentdiscovered Feb 28, 2020

Stated responseWorking with Canon to identify the affected GE employees, former employees and beneficiaries

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov