PhysicalTheftCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTPIIMediumContained
Cohn Handler Sturm
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Full breach record for Cohn Handler Sturm →Cohn Handler Sturm notified clients and employees of a data breach after a partner's PIN-protected cell phone was stolen on July 29, 2017. The stolen device contained access to the partner's work email account, potentially exposing Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and financial account numbers. The firm immediately changed account credentials, remotely wiped the device, and notified law enforcement. Identity theft protection services were offered to affected individuals.
California clockDiscovered Jul 29, 2017 → Notified Sep 11, 201744d ✓ CA 60-day OK6 weeks discovery → filing
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-101725
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Sep 8, 2017
- Raw hash
- e74161811419cb32e4e1aeed572b802769f0673c40287de2d700cecbdc79b95c
Reporting entity
- Name
- Cohn Handler Sturmnorm: cohn handler sturm
- Domain
- cohnhandlersturm.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Cohn Handler Sturmnorm: cohn handler sturm
- Domain
- cohnhandlersturm.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Jul 29, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Sep 11, 2017
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTPII
- Attack vector
- Unknown
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified law enforcement and the applicable state agencies
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 6 weeks(41 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 44d
- 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: Jul 29, 2017→ Notified: Sep 11, 201744d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.