MisusePrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENTMediumContained
ABACUS DATA SYSTEMS, INC.
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Full breach record for ABACUS DATA SYSTEMS, INC. →Abacus Data Systems, Inc. reported a security incident on December 28, 2020, involving a former employee who accessed and emailed a PayCom report containing current and former employees' personal information (names, SSNs, salaries) to a personal account. The breach was discovered on January 14, 2021. The company confirmed no unauthorized access occurred, deleted the email, obtained a sworn statement, and offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks to affected employees.
California clockDiscovered Jan 14, 2021 → Notified Feb 8, 202125d ✓ CA 60-day OK27 days 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.
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/sb24-537900
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Feb 10, 2021
- Raw hash
- 79fe481952f739516254f73f0daea4b711e363fb598074356e0c8f2b4513d328
Reporting entity
- Name
- ABACUS DATA SYSTEMS, INC.norm: abacus data
Victim entity
- Name
- ABACUS DATA SYSTEMS, INC.norm: abacus data
Incident
- Discovered
- Jan 14, 2021
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Feb 8, 2021
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENT
- Attack vector
- Insider
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 27 days(27 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 25d
- Discovery-date grounding
- 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.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Jan 14, 2021→ Notified: Feb 8, 202125d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.