AccidentalMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICMediumContained
Synchrony Bank
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Full breach record for Synchrony Bank →Synchrony Bank notified California regulators of a data security breach occurring in August 2021. Customer envelopes containing personal information, including names, Social Security numbers, addresses, and dates of birth, were erroneously mailed to unintended recipients. The bank implemented enhanced quality controls and offered one year of credit monitoring to affected individuals.
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/sb24-546114
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Oct 5, 2021
- Raw hash
- 4f3d2cc8f12da8cb2e98f485d4d92f3f86352f1ddb1cdbc5cb9e04c4f654bcb7
Reporting entity
- Name
- Synchrony Banknorm: synchrony bank
Victim entity
- Name
- Synchrony Banknorm: synchrony bank
Incident
- Discovered
- Jul 31, 2021
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unknown
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 9 weeks(66 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.