AccidentalFinancial ServicesProfessional ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Paychex, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 30, 2024

Filed

May 9, 2024

To disclose

9 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Paychex, Inc. →

Paychex, Inc. notified the California Attorney General that on March 22, 2024, unclaimed property records containing names and Social Security numbers were inadvertently provided to an unauthorized individual during a lawful exchange with the State of California. Paychex discovered the incident on April 30, 2024. The company is offering one year of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 39 days

discovery → filing · 9 days

Mar 22, 2024

Begins

Apr 30, 2024

Discovered

May 9, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Paychex, Inc.
norm: paychex

Name: Paychex, Inc.
norm: paychex
Industry: Financial ServicesllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Apr 30, 2024
Breach occurred: Mar 22, 2024
Undetected for: 39 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown

During the incident: Offering impacted individuals’ access to one year of Credit Monitoring, CyberScan Monitoring and Complete Recovery Services through IDX at no cost
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 days(9 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/sb24-585048
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 9, 2024
Raw hash: b6341eed166b516895c43931d358ad6aa37d305a480c9059816c144871085ff2

Reporting entityPaychex, Inc.

Victim entityPaychex, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Apr 30, 2024

Stated responseOffering impacted individuals’ access to one year of Credit Monitoring, CyberScan Monitoring and Complete Recovery Services through IDX at no cost

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov