PhysicalProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesTheftEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Update Legal

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 9, 2013

Filed

Jan 13, 2014

To disclose

18 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

67%

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Update Legal notified individuals that a suspect in custody was found with a smartphone containing digital photographs of I-9 forms from Update Legal's San Francisco office. The images potentially contained names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, email addresses, passport numbers, state IDs, military dependent IDs, US Citizen IDs, Certifications of Birth Abroad, Birth Certificates, and addresses. Update Legal commenced an internal investigation, retained legal counsel, and offered one year of identity monitoring services via Experian.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 18 weeks / 126 days

Sep 9, 2013

Discovered

Jan 13, 2014

Filed

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

Name: Update Legal
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Name: Update Legal
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Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 9, 2013
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Informed by the San Francisco Police that a suspect in custody was found to be in possession of a smartphone with digital photographs of I-9 forms

During the incident: Commenced its own internal investigation into this incident
Retained privacy and data security legal counsel to assist with its investigation of, and response to, this incident
Retained Experian to provide —at no cost to you —a membership for up to one (1) year to its ProtectMyIDTM Alert identity monitoring and identity recovery services
Established a confidential privacy line, staffed with professionals trained in credit and identity protection and familiar with this incident
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 weeks(126 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/sb24-43785
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 13, 2014
Raw hash: 7ffc0db5e36c397c7efee655cd9086f5f75b1aae599d247c2085e4e24d7f220b

Reporting entityUpdate Legal

Victim entityUpdate Legal

Incidentdiscovered Sep 9, 2013

Stated responseCommenced its own internal investigation into this incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov