HackingStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIALMediumContained
Stanford University
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Full breach record for Stanford University →Stanford University disclosed a data breach involving its third-party service provider, Equifax. Between March 1-31, 2016, unauthorized individuals accessed W-2 forms via the W-2Express portal. Affected data included names, addresses, SSNs, dates of birth, and wage/tax information. Stanford disabled the service, notified law enforcement, and offered credit monitoring to affected employees.
California clockDiscovered Mar 31, 2016 → Notified Apr 14, 201614d ✓ CA 60-day OK11 weeks 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/sb24-62341
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jun 13, 2016
- Raw hash
- e17dde88124d44cde80747aa67fcfebc40c1a5ed0e6592d1e609b1260b6d0d30
Reporting entity
- Name
- Stanford Universitynorm: stanford university
- Domain
- stanford.edu
- Industry
- Education
Victim entity
- Name
- Stanford Universitynorm: stanford university
- Domain
- stanford.edu
- Industry
- Education
Incident
- Discovered
- Mar 31, 2016
- Materiality determined
- Apr 4, 2016
- Notification sent
- Apr 14, 2016
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL
- Attack vector
- Third-Party / Supply Chain
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Submitted Breach Notification to California Office of the Attorney General
- Third party
- via Equifax
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 11 weeks(74 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 14d
- 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: Mar 31, 2016→ Notified: Apr 14, 201614d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.